We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just… — 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
If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us. — 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
People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment, including… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald… — 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 care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are… — 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
I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system. — 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