190 Quotes by Van Jones

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees. And the government should also directly employ people to do things like coastal restoration, land restoration, reforestation and similar programs that absorb carbon and protect America's beauty.

To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.