190 Quotes by Van Jones

Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.

Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.

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

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

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

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.