Van Jones Quotes

Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have a heart.

Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

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 Trump any day and let the people choose.

You put Hillary Clinton up against Donald Trump, I'm scared of the choice no matter what you do.

All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

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

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.

To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

We have the water, food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.

I hope everybody's getting smarter.

The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

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

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.

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 the political corner.

[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 she loved him.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

In America, we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.

Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.

We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.

When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.