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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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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.
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Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
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[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because she loved him.
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I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.
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After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.
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Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
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As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like How are we going to avoid baking the planet, and How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans? Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare I'm calling for more work.
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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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It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
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[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
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I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.
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Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.
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