Jerry Brown
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.Collection: Failure
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!Collection: Technology
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?Collection: Food
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.Collection: Equality
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Computers
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
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.
We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
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.
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.
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.
My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the UniverseCollection: Simple
After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in CaliforniaCollection: Sex
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.Collection: Struggle
You're all welcome in California.Collection: California
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.Collection: America
I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.Collection: Exercise
Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.Collection: Giving
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.Collection: Strong
"Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.Collection: Jobs
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.Collection: People
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.Collection: Children
Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.Collection: Children
America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.Collection: America
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.Collection: Thinking
The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.Collection: Country
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Justice
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.Collection: Oil
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.Collection: Buying
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.Collection: Thinking
Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!Collection: Waiting
The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].Collection: Climate Action
Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.Collection: People
America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.Collection: America
We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?Collection: Real
At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.Collection: Cocaine
Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.Collection: Action
The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.Collection: Opportunity
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Games
My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.Collection: Gun