Quote

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

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
Underrated
Donald
Understood
Television
Media
Trump
Social
Reality

More quotes by Van Jones

Image
We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way.
Van Jones
Image
In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
Van Jones
Image
People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment, including the Democrats. And not just because of the failure.
Van Jones
Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.
Van Jones
Image
We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.
Van Jones
Image
The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.
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
I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
Van Jones
Image
America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.
Van Jones
Image
I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
Van Jones
Image
The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get to almost everywhere in the country, because we're networked together in a way that is incredibly powerful.
Van Jones
Image
People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and water, nor do homes weatherize themselves.
Van Jones
Image
We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.
Van Jones
Image
Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.
Van Jones
Image
The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.
Van Jones
Image
Anybody who's mad should run for something.
Van Jones
Image
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.
Van Jones
Image
You put Hillary Clinton up against Donald Trump, I'm scared of the choice no matter what you do.
Van Jones
Image
Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.
Van Jones
Image
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
Van Jones