Quotes by Jerry Brown

“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 a...”

“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.”

“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 creati...”

“The government is becoming the family of last resort.”

“Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we sa...”

“It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.”

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

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

“The idea that government has some omnipotence or omniscience is completely absurd and counter to all the thinking that went into our country.”

“There is an overblown rhetoric and overblown expectation that if there is a problem there must be program to solve it.”

“Many regulations primarily protect the past, prop up privilege or prevent sensible economic choices.”

“The mistrust of our public institutions and mere anxiety about our future economy are more the order than the exception. Three quarters of the people do not trust their government. More than half o...”

“In this decade government at all levels has increased spending faster than the true rate of economic growth… The cure for inflation has been administered with a vengeance. Yet most people feel wors...”

“Government, no less than the individual, must live within limits. It is time to bring our accounts into balance. Government, as exemplar and teacher, must manifest a self-discipline that spreads ac...”

“There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.”

“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'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 U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.”

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

“The Democrats are a big tent with many different points of view. Having said all of that, I think there will be a tendency to passing too many laws and spend too much money. And I would say that th...”