Quotes of Jerry Brown - somelinesforyou

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

- Jerry Brown

“ It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown. Every culture breaks down. Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire… ”

- 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

“ Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches… ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches… ”

- Jerry Brown

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

- Jerry Brown

“ Government is the tool of the moneyed powers. That concentration of power is happening because Congress is bought off. The system is rigged. And anyone who because of some schoolbook imagery thinks we have some sort of a democratically elected government is not reading the signs of the times. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Government is the tool of the moneyed powers. That concentration of power is happening because Congress is bought off. The system is rigged. And anyone who because of some schoolbook imagery thinks we have some sort of a democratically elected government is not reading the signs of the times. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Inaction may be the biggest form of action. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown. Every culture breaks down. Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire… ”

- Jerry Brown

“ My philosophy was one of greater self reliance, a philosophy of decentralization, of more person-to-person contact. That's what I was espousing. That's what I still espouse. ”

- 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

“ Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Before we turn a housing authority back over, we like to make sure it's financially sound, it has a plan and we have done everything we can do to make sure that the tenants are getting what they should be getting. ”

- Jerry Brown

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

- Jerry Brown

“ Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? ”

- Jerry Brown

“ It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Government is the tool of the moneyed powers. That concentration of power is happening because Congress is bought off. The system is rigged. And anyone who because of some schoolbook imagery thinks we have some sort of a democratically elected government is not reading the signs of the times. ”

- 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

“ The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world. ”

- 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

“ My philosophy was one of greater self reliance, a philosophy of decentralization, of more person-to-person contact. That's what I was espousing. That's what I still espouse. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ My philosophy was one of greater self reliance, a philosophy of decentralization, of more person-to-person contact. That's what I was espousing. That's what I still espouse. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches… ”

- Jerry Brown

“ Yes, there is an emergency this is not just an emergency, it's obviously a chronic crisis,... This thing has been going on a long time and political rhetoric doesn't stop it. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ It's basically a soft commitment. ”

- Jerry Brown
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