Jerry Brown
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.Collection: Fashion
Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.Collection: Thinking
Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.Collection: Oil
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.Collection: Gun
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.Collection: People
We're going to move left and right at the same time.Collection: Funny
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.Collection: Issues
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.Collection: Military
You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged in literally a life-and-death struggle, and I have no doubt who is going to be the victor.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Past
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.Collection: White
The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.Collection: Corporations
The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Real
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.Collection: Population
We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.Collection: Liars
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.Collection: World
We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.Collection: Intelligent
Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.Collection: Average
There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.Collection: Anarchist
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.Collection: Work
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.Collection: Education
This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.Collection: Climate
President Trump is boldly moving in what I would call rather extreme directions. And that is going to set into motion a reaction, and it already has... He builds the strength on the other side to combat climate change.Collection: Moving
The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.Collection: Government
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Wisdom
Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.Collection: California
Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.Collection: Republican
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.Collection: Littles
I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.Collection: Office
The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.Collection: Wisdom
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.Collection: People
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.Collection: Sorry
Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.Collection: Military
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.Collection: People
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.Collection: Civilization
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.Collection: Thinking
Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.Collection: People
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.Collection: Punishment
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.Collection: Future
The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!Collection: War
The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!Collection: War