147 Quotes by Jerry Brown

The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we’re going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here’s the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

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.

The war on drugs is really no war at all – it’s a business!

There’s nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

It doesn’t matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I’m committed to that. But I’m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production.

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.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false ‘rising crime’ tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.