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Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

Jerry Brown

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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.
Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown Jr.
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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
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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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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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Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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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!
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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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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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Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.
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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
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When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.
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We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
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Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
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Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
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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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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.
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Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
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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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