Quotes from Van Jones

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

Local politics matters a lot.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.

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

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

America's government has to get the public investments right.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

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

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.

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

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

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.