190 Quotes by Van Jones

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.

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

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

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

No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

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