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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
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If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
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I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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When somebody comes along and says, I think Washington, DC, sucks, that's not wrong.
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Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.
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