Quote

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

Jerry Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
Blogger
Governor Of California
Lawyer
Politician
San Francisco County
California
Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown Jr.
Republican
Usually
Without
Attacks
Right
Democrats
Attack
Basis
Bases
Democrat

More quotes by Jerry Brown

Image
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
Jerry Brown
Image
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
Image
My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
Jerry Brown
Image
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
Image
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.
Jerry Brown
Image
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
Image
The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
Jerry Brown
Image
Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
Jerry Brown
Image
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
Jerry Brown
Image
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.
Jerry Brown
Image
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
Image
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
Jerry Brown
Image
The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.
Jerry Brown
Image
Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
Jerry Brown
Image
You're all welcome in California.
Jerry Brown
Image
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
Jerry Brown
Image
The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].
Jerry Brown
Image
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!
Jerry Brown
Image
The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
Jerry Brown
Image
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.
Jerry Brown