Jerry Brown Quotes - Page 4

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• Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Use, Source

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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!

  Jerry Brown

  Waiting, Germany, Boundaries

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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].

  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.

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• 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

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

  Jerry Brown

  America, World, Trajectory

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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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.

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• Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

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  Running, Mean, Long

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• At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

  Jerry Brown

  Cocaine, Expensive

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• Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

  Jerry Brown

  Action, Sometimes, Form

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• The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

  Jerry Brown

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!

  Jerry Brown

  Lying, Government, Self

  Speech at International Transpersonal Association Conference in Santa Clara, California, June 10, 1995.

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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.

  Jerry Brown

  Games, People, Criminals

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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.

  Jerry Brown

  Gun, Rights, Law

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

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• 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.

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• 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

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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.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Treaties, Missiles

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

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• 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.

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