“The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs ...” — Valerie Jarrett Quote

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.

When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.

Just because somebody says no doesn't mean that you have to listen. You can do what you think is right.

I will admit that I often spend weekends after each 'House of Cards' season is released binge-watching the show for hours. But I watch it because it is entertaining, not because it reminds me of my day-to-day.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.