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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
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San Francisco County
California
Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown Jr.
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
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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 reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
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Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
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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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I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.
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We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
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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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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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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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Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
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At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
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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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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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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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