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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

Jerry Brown

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
Blogger
Governor Of California
Lawyer
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San Francisco County
California
Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown Jr.
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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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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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The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
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My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
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The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.
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Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
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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].
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You're all welcome in California.
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