Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr.is an American politician and lawyer, who has been serving as the 39th Governor of California since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served as the 34th governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in California history. Prior to and following his first governorship, Brown served in numerous state, local and party positions, including three times a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 April 1938
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
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.
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
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%.
The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
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...
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!
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.
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.