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You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

Van Jones

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
Human Rights Activist
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Motivational Speaker
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Anthony Kapel Jones
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[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
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We have the water, food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.
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I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that was a part of the whitelash. And if you listened to the whole quote, you would agree with what I said.
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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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Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.
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The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
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To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
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We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
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By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
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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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[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.
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Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.
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If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.
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I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.
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Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
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I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to understand why my message keeps getting drowned out. Big oil and big coal are terrified by the green jobs message.
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If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.
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