A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training. Van Jones More Quotes by Van Jones More Quotes From Van Jones Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation. Van Jones disrespectcreationfighting Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or developing world conditions into the United States because of a bipartisan elite consensus for neo-liberalism. In other words, you had both political parties, the smarty-pants in both political parties said, hey, let's do these crazy trade deals. Van Jones politicalpartycrazy Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience. Van Jones sobercrazystuff Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands. Van Jones levelswarworld We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation. Van Jones great-faithspeakshould The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves. Van Jones animallifefall 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. Van Jones politicaltoolsneeds It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us. Van Jones fashionablevotepeople I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice. Van Jones progressivesocialjustice I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people. Van Jones partyherocountry 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. Van Jones reallaughingideas The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change. Van Jones lawjusticemoving 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. Van Jones blackwhitepeople I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities. Van Jones countryyearsthinking I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk. Van Jones initiativecampaignspeople Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president." Van Jones whitepeoplethinking This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity. Van Jones rustamericapeople Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower. Van Jones technologymooncollege Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen. Van Jones ablemoonjobs The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition. Van Jones competitiontechnologyenergy
