Quotes from Van Jones

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

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

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?"

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

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

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.

Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.

Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.