The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief -… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it.… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image