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
We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent… — 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
There would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business. — 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
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
The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S.… — 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