147 Quotes by Jerry Brown

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

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.