The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly. Jill Stein More Quotes by Jill Stein More Quotes From Jill Stein Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening the economy on an emergency basis. So it's 20 million jobs, which are mixed, private sector, nonprofits, government jobs where others will not do the job and will not create the employment. Jill Stein government twenties jobs I'm sorry. If you're working as secretary of state, you do not have time to be spending half of your volume of emails on your own private stuff, whether it's a nonprofit private business or whether it is a for-profit private business. You should not be doing that on company time. Jill Stein email half sorry We've got a big happy, one corporate family now uniting the corporate Democrats and the corporate Republicans. 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And this is not a world that's working for us, and the climate is going up in flames right now, and the wars are expanding, and we've got 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This is not a good picture, and I think the American people are discovering that. Jill Stein jobs war country You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients. Jill Stein favors government giving We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy. Jill Stein occupy-movement embrace speak That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head. Jill Stein race winning numbers We can keep doing the same thing, but it would be unreasonable to expect a different result. 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