Van Jones Quotes

I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a bowl of actual green investment and job creation. So my goal for next year is to move from inspiration to implementation on this stuff.

As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

What the Internet was for the 1990s, green jobs are for the 2000s.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

Training does not create jobs—good ones or bad ones.

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

I'm not worried too much about left, right spectrum; I'm worried about what's actually going to work to help Canadians who are worried about their own jobs, about their kids' jobs.

I am running because I believe strongly that we need to get folks back to work and address the needs that the folks in the 1st Congressional District have in terms of employment and economic opportunity.

A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.

Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?

We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.

The president [Donald Trump] said his three-part agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs.

If there's a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.

Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.