Jerry Brown Quotes

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

  Jerry Brown

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• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  Jerry Brown

• 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

• 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.

  Jerry Brown

• We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

  Jerry Brown

• We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

  Jerry Brown

• Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

  Jerry Brown

• The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

  Jerry Brown

• The government is becoming the family of last resort.

  Jerry Brown

• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

  Jerry Brown

• 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

• Prisons don’t rehabilitate, they don’t punish, they don’t protect, so what the hell do they do?

  Jerry Brown

• 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.

  Jerry Brown

• 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.

  Jerry Brown

• Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I’m talking about welfare for all. Without it, you’re going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

• Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

  Jerry Brown

• 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

• 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.

  Jerry Brown

• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

  Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown (19)

Birth:	7th April, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Edmund Gerald Brown Jr., known as Jerry Brown was born in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an American politician and lawyer who has been the 39th Governor of California since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in California history. He served as Secretary of State of California from 1971-1975. He served as Chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1989-1991. He served as Mayor of Oakland from 1999-2007, and then Attorney General of California from 2007-2011. He earned a BA degree in Latin and Greek from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, and then entered Yale Law School, where he graduated in 1964. After law school, Brown worked as a law clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner. He married to Anne Gust in 2005.

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