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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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• The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.

  Jerry Brown

  Future, Moon, Years

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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.

  Jerry Brown

  Sorry, Europe, Excellence

  "Jerry Brown Blasts Teacher Unionization Bill / Charter schools' self-determination at stake, he says" by Rick DelVecchio, www.sfgate.com. May 22, 1999.

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• It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

  Jerry Brown

  Looks, World, Obvious

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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?

  Jerry Brown

  Names, Pesticides, Buying

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• Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.

  Jerry Brown

  Military, Moving, Creating

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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.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Locks, Rising

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• We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

  Jerry Brown

  Littles, Bugs, Rating

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• The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

  Jerry Brown

  Wisdom, Reality, Government

  Jerry Brown (1976). “Thoughts”

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• I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

  Jerry Brown

  Office, Ifs

  "Capitol Journal". Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2004.

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• In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Salary, Ends

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• Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

  Jerry Brown

  Sacrifice, Cutting, Reality

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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.

  Jerry Brown

  Civilization, Way, Threat

  Interview with Paolo Soleri, www.wtp.org. December 8, 1995.

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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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