Van Jones Quotes

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

Life is a series of problems.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

People who solve problems are happier.

He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Do people have a right to be angry about, not just the political class, but every institution in society? Absolutely. But neither anger nor fear will solve our problems. They can serve to motivate us, but it will not solve our problems.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.

The goal is to keep the dialogue open. There are issues in the USA that a lot of people feel strongly about. The goal is just to fix those issues. To make progress on those issues.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.