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I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

Jerry Brown

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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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At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
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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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My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
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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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My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
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We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.
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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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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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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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It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
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Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
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The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
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The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called assets, the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!
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Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
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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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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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