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The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.
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That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.
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There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.
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The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.
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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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People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.
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Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.
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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.
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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.
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If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, Trump, Trump! when they're doing it.
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Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
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America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country.
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A family-friendly eco-populism can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.
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When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.
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