Van Jones Quotes - Page 10

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• It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

  Van Jones

  Military, Party, Dirty

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're only looking at toxic stuff and don't recognize there's going to be some good stuff if you're for infrastructure or whatever, you're wrong.

  Van Jones

  Toxic, Looks, Stuff

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Cities, Want

  Source: aalbc.com

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

  Van Jones

  Legacy, Obstacles

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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

  Van Jones

  Two, Alignment

  Source: aalbc.com

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• [I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.

  Van Jones

  Hate, Ideas, Wish

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.

  Van Jones

  Kings, Inspiration, School

  Source: aalbc.com

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

  Van Jones

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That's all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

  Van Jones

  Country, Xenophobia, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Trying, Pushing, Wealth

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Country, Real, War

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Moving, Patriotic

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

  Van Jones

  Country, War, Rich Countries

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Crazy, Reality, Media

  "Van Jones: 'Hope for the Best, Expect and Prepare for the Worst'". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2016.

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

  Van Jones

  Reality, Stuff, Tvs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Van Jones

  Reality, Tvs, Villain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Van Jones

  Followers, Stuff, Fewer

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Little kids sing a song called "America the Beautiful." They sing a song called "This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land." To me, those songs are not just nice little ditties. They are marching orders. They are commandments that we must protect America's beauty from the clear-cutters, the strip-miners, the oil spillers. They are pledges we have made. They are promises to keep.

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Song, Nice

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.

  Van Jones

  Wall, Reality, Climbing

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

  Van Jones

  Media, People, Dynamics

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

  Van Jones

  People, Champion, Energy

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Reality, Eight, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

  Van Jones

  White, People, Say Anything

  Source: pen.org

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• Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.

  Van Jones

  Pain, Real, People

  Source: pen.org

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Native American, Thinking, Community

  Source: pen.org

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