Jerry Brown Quotes

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

Jerry Brown
But the dark evil geniuses who run this country have figured out another use for these surplus people — arrest them in the war on drugs or the war on crime and put them into prison, adding to the gross domestic product!

Jerry Brown
We've got to back up here and say it's not okay. It's not okay even to kill guilty people.

Jerry Brown
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.

Jerry Brown
…not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use — a great source of mischief — I don't see any point to the FBI…

Jerry Brown
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!

Jerry Brown
That's another step forward in creating a nation of sheep in a totalitarian state, saying, "Yes sir, yes sir! Is that what you want? Do it to me again!" By the time they graduate, kids won't even know they have rights. They'll be little stooges for a fascist state.

Jerry Brown
The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.

Jerry Brown
Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

Jerry Brown
Some of the same rhetoric used by the law-and-order crowd has been used by authoritarian states over and over again.

Jerry Brown
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

Jerry Brown