Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.
Van JonesI had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.
Van JonesWe should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
Van JonesIn a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.
Van JonesThe dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.
Van JonesLittle kids sing a song called "America the Beautiful." They sing a song called "This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land." To me, those songs are not just nice little ditties. They are marching orders. They are commandments that we must protect America's beauty from the clear-cutters, the strip-miners, the oil spillers. They are pledges we have made. They are promises to keep.
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