Jerry Brown Men Quotations

We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!

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.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

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.

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 government is becoming the family of last resort.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

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

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.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

Tragically, the federal government is violating federal law, which requires an assessment of cumulative impacts. This injures the citizens of Oakland, and every person in this country.

It is profoundly important because it is a major step forward in holding these agencies to a rule of law, in this instance a rule of environmental law,

The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress.

Government is the tool of the moneyed powers. That concentration of power is happening because Congress is bought off. The system is rigged. And anyone who because of some schoolbook imagery thinks we have some sort of a democratically elected government is not reading the signs of the times.

Government is not going to be there in the first 24 hours.

It presents a challenge that it's in a wetland; our objective here is to make it look like it has always been there and disturb the environment as little as possible.