Jerry Brown Quotes

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.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

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 California

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.

You're all welcome in 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.

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

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.

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.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

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.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

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 have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

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.

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.

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