Jerry Brown Quotes (49 Quotes)

The only people who would not like the water today are people who are harvesting crops.

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.

I just need to look around and make sure I'm not missing out on anything at any other schools.

Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us.

It's basically a soft commitment.

Its disturbing, to say the least, that Brittany Farms has offered no new proposals in the last two negotiation sessions. It would appear that Brittany Farms is not interested in working together to reach a mutual agreement.

Before we turn a housing authority back over, we like to make sure it's financially sound, it has a plan and we have done everything we can do to make sure that the tenants are getting what they should be getting.

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.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Yes, there is an emergency but this is not just an emergency, it's obviously a chronic crisis, ... This thing has been going on a long time and political rhetoric doesn't stop it.

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.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

This puts light where it's needed. It cuts down on glare and doesn't waste energy lighting areas that don't need light.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

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.

So we called over to Hermann Memorial Hospital and got a bunch of cots and blankets. Our members brought in clothes and diapers and food. The Red Cross put our address out on the interstate for people stopping here. The word got around. Last Thursday, I think it was, the school buses started coming we've got 67 children going to school from this facility.

It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown. Every culture breaks down. Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire. The people in charge probably didn't get it until they had their heads chopped off.

Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches. They don't play in the same parks. They don't swim in the same pools. They don't go to the same movies.

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

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

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 say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

Bush is only going to be around for a couple more years, and the evidence of global warming has grown, ... These agencies should act on their own. This issue is recognized by scientists and world leaders.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

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.

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.

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

The world is still the world according to the New York Times business section. It's all about mergers, the Dow. But there's a movement coming. And capitalism is definitely shaky now. It's shaky because it's based on insatiable desires in a biologically limited world.

In essence, it's a typo. The books are really put together from a series of complex databases. For headings, they're in the (computer) system as codes. Somebody basically entered the wrong code.

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

We were concerned that produce that did not meet the size standards of the marketing orders was being thrown away. At the same time there were elderly people who could not afford to have food. We wanted farmers to have an alternative outlet. The idea was to link up the farmer with the consumer through direct marketing.

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

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

people-friendly city -- safe, honest and bursting with craft and entrepreneurial spirit.

We tried to get out of the house, but couldn't. We were running out the back door.

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.

A farmer or an extension agent will be there talking about that particular animal and what products come from it and what it eats and how much it weighs. We're hoping the kids get a better appreciation for agriculture and that they realize there are actual local people behind the scenes working to stock the shelves of their grocery stores.

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.

She was involved and active from the very first day we started to organize there. The union was a vehicle for her to stand up and demand respect for herself and her fellow employees, and I think that's why she has always been so passionate about it.

It's unconscionable for Sutter to remain on a collision course with an open-ended strike when a reasonable alternative has been recommended by an impartial mediator,

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

dealing with two political parties that are at each other's throats. He's dealing with a very large deficit, the largest of any state in the history of America. And he's dealing with an economy which is highly uncertain. He's got determination, and he's g

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?

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.

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.

When you talk to the average person, they are not all victims of homicide.

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.