Jerry Brown Quotes

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• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and…
• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
• When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I…
• It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
• Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
• We're going to move left and right at the same time.
• It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
• It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
• After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of…
• Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of…
• The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
• Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
• Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
• The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
• The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family,…
• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
• I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say…
• This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our…
• The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to…

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