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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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Edmund Gerald Brown
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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.
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Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
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The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
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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 California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
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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, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
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Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.
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Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
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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.
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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.
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I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
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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.
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My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
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I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
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Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
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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.
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It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
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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%.
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