Superpatriot

VAN JONES: I’m proud to live in a country, where if you live in a free country, you’re free to think whatever you want, you’re free to read whatever books you want, you’re free to explore whatever you want. And you’re also free to change your mind. I’m in my 40s now, I’m a father, a homeowner, I’m an employer--my views are different now. I believe we can use well-regulated markets to clean up the mess that badly regulated and unregulated markets have caused, and that’s my [unclear]. But I’ve never apologized or stood down for any of the stuff I did when I was younger, because you should have the right in this country to be young, to think wild thoughts and embrace utopian ideas and all that kind of stuff. I want other people who are young and want to challenge orthodoxies to feel that you can do that and you can also move on with your life. The people who criticize me, I’ve done more to help this country in the past two months, fighting to cut mortgages for people who are underwater, fighting to get student-loan relief for people, I’ve done more for my country in the past two months than a lot of these people have done in their whole lives.