Van Jones Quotes

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

Political courage reads well in editorials, but it doesn't translate into political reality.

The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day.

You have to come to full realization of just how horrible things are. And this is how horrible things are: Donald Trump is almost the President of the United States.

The old Republican Party is gone. It's now Trump's party.

For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.

There mustn't be a moment when we turn on the TV and think, 'There's Trump in the White House' - that must never feel normal.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

It's been an unusual election [2016].

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current.

The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."

...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.

The notion of people commenting on you, the notion of people saying things about you, people liking or disliking you and getting into your business, has become more of a reality for the general public over the last years, as people have dipped further into Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and social media.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.

Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

After eight years of [Barack Obama], look what happened in this election. Did the country flip again? No. I maintain it didn't flip in 2008-2009, and we were not a 60% radical leftist population like they tried to portray it as.

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine.

We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.