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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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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

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My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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