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I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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The problem is that we didn't fight the way we should've fought. We made it be about [Donald Trump] and [Hillary Clinton] as opposed to making it be about us. If we had said this was a fight, not about I'm with Her but I'm with Us then maybe we would've had a different attitude toward her.
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For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
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In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.
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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.
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You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.
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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
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Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.
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Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.
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Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
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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 just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next generation of technological innovation. But we can't unleash private capital because of what the government is doing to stifle innovation and to choke competition.
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There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
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If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
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Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion of democracy was in the White House. So, even then, we were probably in less danger as a country than we are right now.
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