My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We're now moving into a stage where the green economy isn't just going to be the place for people to spend money.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The people who seem to us to be a very tiny elite, far off and mysterious, actually live in a fairly big… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You… — 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
