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Governor Of California Inspirational Quotes (58)

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Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
Jerry Brown
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The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.
Jerry Brown
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The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
Jerry Brown
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The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called assets, the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!
Jerry Brown
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
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The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%.
Jerry Brown
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Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
Jerry Brown
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So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.
Jerry Brown
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My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
Jerry Brown
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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
Jerry Brown
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We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
Jerry Brown
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America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.
Jerry Brown
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At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
Jerry Brown
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America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.
Jerry Brown
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Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
Jerry Brown
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I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn`t even bother to show up.
Jerry Brown
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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.
Jerry Brown
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Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
Jerry Brown
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The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
Jerry Brown
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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 climate system.
Jerry Brown
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Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
Jerry Brown
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The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
Jerry Brown
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The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.
Jerry Brown
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
Jerry Brown
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