Van Jones Quotes - Page 12

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different

By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

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

A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.

That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. 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, fighting for the future.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

I'm excited about our rising generation.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.