Van Jones Quotes

Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

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

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

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 perception of what is at stake.

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

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

I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

Local politics matters a lot.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

America's government has to get the public investments right.

Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

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

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

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

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

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.

You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

You don't get fewer followers saying outrageous stuff on Twitter.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.