Latest Jerry Brown Quotes from Interviews

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• We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?

  Jerry Brown

  Real, Years, Sea

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

• President Trump is boldly moving in what I would call rather extreme directions. And that is going to set into motion a reaction, and it already has... He builds the strength on the other side to combat climate change.

  Jerry Brown

  Moving, President, Climate

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

• America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

  Jerry Brown

  America, Car, World

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

• America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

  Jerry Brown

  America, World, Trajectory

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• 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].

  Jerry Brown

  Climate Action, California, Jail

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

• Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Would Be, Deportation

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

  Jerry Brown

  Children, Men, California

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Jerry Brown

  Gun, Rights, Law

  "Gov. Jerry Brown signs 6 gun-control bills, vetoes 5 " by Melody Gutierrez, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2016.

• We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.

  Jerry Brown

  Fashion, Real, Goal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, Iraq, Dumb

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

• I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I`m committed to that. But I`m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, California, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• 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.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Treaties, Missiles

  "All In with Chris Hayes, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

• I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn`t even bother to show up.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, California, America

  "All In with Chris Hayes, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

• If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.

  Jerry Brown

  Moving, Technology, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com