Jerry Brown Quotes

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.

Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

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.

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

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!

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

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.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?