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.

I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

I don’t want you to be safe ideologically. I don’t want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That’s different. I’m not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I’m not going to take all the weights out of the gym. This is the gym.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth’s inner fire.

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy – one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new “green economy” they are birthing?

Now it’s the age for the translator. It’s the age for the bridge builder. It’s the age for Velcro. It’s the age for Lego. It’s the age for combining what we already have into what we need.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it’s rancher power, it’s Appalachian power.