147 Quotes by Jerry Brown

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.

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...

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.