Friday Quote - heeeee’s baaaaaack
"When the food fight is over, there’s one spot of clean common ground in American politics and that is the need for us to be leading on energy, clean energy, and for us as a country to be more secure with all those jobs. ... I’m confident we’re going to get there because I don’t think America is going to be willing to pass this one up. I think at the end of the day, common sense will prevail, and the common ground will be in the direction of clean energy." - Van Jones
Former Obama cabinet member Van Jones who resigned from the White House Council on Environmental Quality has risen, and he's ready to rock again. In the short term, he’ll be teaching a policy seminar at Princeton next year, he's accepted a senior fellowship at the Center for American Progress where he will head up a “green opportunity initiative", and on Friday, he will accept the NAACP President’s Award from Benjamin Todd Jealous, who recently wrote an op-ed about Jones for CNN - calling him an America Treasure.
The above quote from Jones is from his first post-resignation interview, an interview he gave to Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post. Read that story HERE, and read excerpts from the interview HERE. Another great Jones' quote can be found after the jump.
I am probably the biggest champion of free market solutions for America's problems, period... I understand these problems well enough to understand the only way we're going to be able to solve them is by unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship and market-based forces.
The journey that I took to get to these positions had a lot of
stages and phases in it. I understand that they would raise some
eyebrows for people who were trying to figure out who this president
is, and who I am, and I accept that. When you step forward and try to
show leadership, then to some extent, everything's fair game.
I don't have any bitterness or anger about the situation. The good
thing about being an American is you're free to think whatever you
want, and you're also free to change your mind. That's my story.
