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've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race...