Van Jones Quotes

Let me emphatically point out that … sympathy is useless unless it is accompanied by indignation, and indignation is useless if it exhausts itself in words instead of taking shape in deeds.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Words become deeds and then meet needs.

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

It's deeds we need, not words.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Talk and action are two different things.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Great talkers, little doers.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

We need a doer, not a talker.

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

If Hillary Clinton is president of the United States, nothing is going to happen. It's just going to be talk.