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 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
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
What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were… — 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
It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The progressives have a challenge. Part of it is that you now have a lot of progressives who feel that 50 million,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops,… — 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,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — 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
[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
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
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others -… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last… — 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 we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which… — 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
If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's… — 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
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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