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

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation.
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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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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.
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Dirty energy is a finite resource the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.
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Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
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Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.
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We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.
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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.
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We're getting back what we're putting out.
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All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.
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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 main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
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No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.
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Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
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Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.
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Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.
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