Quote

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a person of faith not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

Van Jones

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
Human Rights Activist
Lawyer
Motivational Speaker
Pundit
Jackson
Tennessee
Anthony Kapel Jones
Clear
Meditate
Read
Sons
Faith
Sharing
Persons
Sinner
Person
Saint
Pray
Son
Praying

More quotes by Van Jones

Image
Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
Van Jones
Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be a guaranteed U.S. renewable energy market in which they can compete. Otherwise, they will create the next generation of green companies and green jobs in Asia, not here.
Van Jones
Image
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
Van Jones
Image
I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.
Van Jones
Image
In America, we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.
Van Jones
Image
[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.
Van Jones
Image
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
Van Jones
Image
A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.
Van Jones
Image
We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.
Van Jones
Image
We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.
Van Jones
Image
The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.
Van Jones
Image
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.
Van Jones
Image
Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
Van Jones
Image
The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.
Van Jones
Image
The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.
Van Jones
Image
Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.
Van Jones
Image
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
Van Jones
Image
I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.
Van Jones
Image
Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.
Van Jones
Image
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.
Van Jones