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I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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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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When it gets harder to love, love harder.
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The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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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.
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The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies.
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Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.
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We have the water, food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
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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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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
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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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Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.
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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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[I wish no one ever asked me ] Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11? Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.
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We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.
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The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.
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Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.
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We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.
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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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