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
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.
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
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.
We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
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.
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.
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
We're going to move left and right at the same time.
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.
Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.