Opportunity Quotes by Van Jones

14 Opportunity quotes by Van Jones

Van Jones frames opportunity as a collective force, urging readers to lift each other up. His 14 brief statements blend activism with optimism, making the idea of seizing moments feel like a shared mission.

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[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.

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“He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity”

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We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal…

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Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

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To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new…

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We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country…

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The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of…

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We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to…

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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…

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All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,…

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Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion,…

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When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You…

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We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind…

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The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of…

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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

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If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very…

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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…

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I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who…

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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.

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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.

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[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…

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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…

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Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

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Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

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We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.

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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…

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I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

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I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It…

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I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

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