Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share
I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who… — Van Jones Copy Share
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones Copy Share
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share
[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because… — Van Jones Copy Share
The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that… — Van Jones Copy Share
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there. — Van Jones Copy Share
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out. — Van Jones Copy Share
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's… — Van Jones Copy Share
I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector. — Van Jones Copy Share
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It… — Van Jones Copy Share
I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life. — Van Jones Copy Share
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