Van Jones

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

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Local politics matters a lot.

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We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

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Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

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I hope everybody's getting smarter.

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We're getting back what we're putting out.

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I'm excited about our rising generation.

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I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.

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In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

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Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

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I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

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Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

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The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

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Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

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The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different

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Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

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If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All…

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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled…

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A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not…

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There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you…

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We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.

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We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in…

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I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

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If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right…

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I think the most important thing is discovering an idea that moves you, and then letting people who are moved by that…

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The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf…

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Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and…

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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…

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We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in…

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I used to go to all the environmental conferences when I wasn't an invited speaker. I was just somebody in the back…

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I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment…

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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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To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to…

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Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core,…

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I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our…

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“them out if they make dumb choices. Let them struggle; let them learn; let them take responsibility. They need to figure out…

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That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and…

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On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against…

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