All Van Jones Quotes
- Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous. Climate
- If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. Change
- In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. Businesses
- 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. Climate
- Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when… Better
- Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and… Base
- Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. Billions
- The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast… All
- The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun. Climate
- The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can… Climate
- The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work. Climate
- We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone. Build
- We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. Climate
- Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? America
- Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? Birthing
- Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else… Actually Believe
- To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people. Affluent
- No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law. Beneath
- Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg Barack
- When it gets harder to love, love harder. Funny
- The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different Inspirational
- When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young… Bunch
- I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck,… All
- We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound… Creation
- The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Beyond