The crux of the matter is whether the state of California should continue to make it a crime for a dying person to end his life. Jerry Brown More Quotes by Jerry Brown More Quotes From Jerry Brown 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. Jerry Brown salary ends people 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. Jerry Brown thieves criminals liars 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 long mean 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 giving people 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 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! Jerry Brown destiny technology opportunity 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. Jerry Brown sacrifice cutting reality It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S. Jerry Brown global-warming poverty world We're going to move left and right at the same time. Jerry Brown stupid funny moving 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 excellence sorry europe It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet. Jerry Brown obvious looks world 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 pesticides buying names 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 government self lying Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress. Jerry Brown creating military moving 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 germany boundaries waiting The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power. Jerry Brown punishment people thinking 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 execution style past The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business! Jerry Brown war-on-drugs drug war 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. Jerry Brown cells government gun The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. Jerry Brown corporations
