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At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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Governor Of California
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San Francisco County
California
Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
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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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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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I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
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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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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.
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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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Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
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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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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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It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
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Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.
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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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We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
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So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.
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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 need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
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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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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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