147 Quotes by Jerry Brown

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.

We’re not going to have a backlash. We’re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family – the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House – are getting away literally with murder.

Then once you get people locked up, it’s an incredibly inhuman system.

I’ve been in office and I’ve been out of office. And if I were to choose, I’d rather be in office.

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California’s budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

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.

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It’s just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

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.