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

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown Jr.
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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
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Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
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Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
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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 So any treaty can be withdrawn from.
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Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!
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We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.
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My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
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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.
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