"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies. — 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
We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — 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
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
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
Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and… — 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
Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to put pressure on Trump, to speak out very forcefully that he's the president of all Americans including Muslims, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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 Image
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