Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr.is an American politician and lawyer, who has been serving as the 39th Governor of California since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served as the 34th governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in California history. Prior to and following his first governorship, Brown served in numerous state, local and party positions, including three times a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 April 1938
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
We're going to move left and right at the same time.
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.
Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.
I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
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!
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
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?
The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.
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...