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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.

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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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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.
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We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
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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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America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.
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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.
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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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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
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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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The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
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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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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.
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Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.
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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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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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You're all welcome in California.
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It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
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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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Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
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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.
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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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