Jerry Brown Quotes

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI ...

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

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.

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field ... The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

You're all welcome in California,