Political Quotes

Van Jones

Pundit

540Quotes on record
2009–2026On the record

American environmental advocate and civil rights activist

Quotes by year · 20092026540 total · peak 2016 (86)
2009: 1 quote2011: 11 quotes2012: 18 quotes2013: 11 quotes2014: 25 quotes2015: 64 quotes2016: 86 quotes2017: 75 quotes2018: 50 quotes2019: 23 quotes2020: 27 quotes2021: 20 quotes2022: 9 quotes2023: 43 quotes2024: 65 quotes2025: 11 quotes2026: 1 quote
Nov 30, 2023

I just like it when the courts got a chance to say someone's guilty or innocent, and then Congress moves. I don't like it when Congress moves ahead of the courts, because that, well then, who gets to decide?

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Nov 30, 2023

It means leadership doesn't get to lead much these days and there's a reason for that. Santos was sucking up a lot of oxygen. It wasn't the money that he stole, it was the time and attention he was stealing from all the other Republicans…

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Nov 30, 2023

Well, I mean, it's a chance to pick up a seat, and the margin is so thin that it makes it, you know, it's a good thing. I will say that booting somebody out of Congress over being a weirdo, it's stealing money for OnlyFans and Botox, I…

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Nov 1, 2023

If you don't know that, you're not going to appoint -- you're not going to volunteer right, you're not going to donate right and the Democrats are going to be caught sleeping at the wheel.

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Nov 1, 2023

There's no word big enough of the amount of concern because people are just hurt.

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Oct 24, 2023

This is a very dangerous moment for the country. Very soon, about a year, that guy is going to be presiding over the certification of the next presidential election here in a couple months. You have not just an election denier, but someone…

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Aug 23, 2023

This is a stable system working appropriately, when people in office abuse their power and other branches stand up and say there are lines that should not be crossed.

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Aug 14, 2023

You cannot conspire to overthrow an election in the United States and get away with it.

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Aug 2, 2023

You won't be able to show a Democratic president sitting in the Oval Office trying to hold on to power in the way that Donald Trump did.

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Aug 2, 2023

There were progressives working to delegitimize Trump from the very beginning, it is true, and they were not prosecuted.

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Jun 29, 2023

It is a horrible day in this country. It is a huge step back.

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Jun 28, 2023

If you care about this country, if you care about democracy, the Supreme Court is supposed to be playing a role that respects precedent, that has some relationship to what's actually happening and that is not happening here.

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