147 Quotes by Jerry Brown

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

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

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.