Jerry Brown Quotes

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This lawsuit is part of a broader effort to realign economic and industrial activity with ecological constraints.

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.

[A key problem facing the shelters here and elsewhere is that nobody knows how long they will be needed.] We are seeing some people leave already, ... But we think some are going to be here for weeks or months.

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

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 going to need every ounce of it, because this is truly a very challenging situation.

We're kind of running into Murder's Row now.

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.

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

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.

We just stay out of the woods as much as possible, don't disturb the trees. The less the damage, the less we tear up, the less it will look like we've been there. That's what we want.

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.

The concept in any of the HUD receiverships is that they're not permanently assigned, but they're there on a temporary basis.

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.

It?s 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.

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