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“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”
-- Jerry Brown

#Sex #Couple #Struggle
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Struggle #Political #Cost
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Exercise #Dark #Choices
“Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?”
-- Jerry Brown

#Prison #Hell #Protect
“You're all welcome in California,”
-- Jerry Brown

#California #Welcome
“It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Long #Sound #Different
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Jobs #Stupid #Cutting
“The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Likes #Planning #Reason
“Inaction may be the biggest form of action.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Justice #May #Action
“Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Children #Equal Treatment #Justice
“The government is becoming the family of last resort.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Family #Men #Lasts
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Jobs #Talking #Automation
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Running #Mean #Long
“My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe”
-- Jerry Brown

#Simple #People #Principles
“The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!”
-- Jerry Brown

#War #Agency #Media
“The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!”
-- Jerry Brown

#War #Drug #War On Drugs
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Equality #Creative #Community
“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!”
-- Jerry Brown

#Waiting #Germany #Boundaries
“We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Littles #Bugs #Rating
“The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.”
-- Jerry Brown

#People #Way #Gulags
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Technology #Thinking #Tools
“The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Opportunity #People #Giving
“The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Future #Moon #Years
“Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Giving #Spirituality #Moments
“It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Looks #World #Obvious
“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”
-- Jerry Brown

#Names #Pesticides #Buying
“We're going to move left and right at the same time.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Funny #Moving #Dumb
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Sorry #Europe #Excellence
“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.”
-- Jerry Brown

#Thinking #Media #Division
“It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.”
-- Jerry Brown

#World #Poverty #Prosperity

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