Valerie Jarrett : (4)

" Equal pay, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare – everywhere I go around the United States, as I talk to working families, these are the issues they raise… We have over 43 million Americans who don’t have a single day of sick leave, but everybody gets sick. Everybody’s children get sick. " - Valerie Jarrett

" I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, ‘It’s a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.’ And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I’ve never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience. " - Valerie Jarrett

" With women composing nearly half the American workforce and increasingly serving as the primary breadwinner for families, we can’t afford to treat pregnant women differently than their counterparts, especially when slight job modifications could help them stay in the workforce at no risk to their health. " - Valerie Jarrett

" As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them. " - Valerie Jarrett