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Jerry Brown


Formerly Governor of California, ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, was Mayor of Oakland, California, then Attorney General of California, and is again Governor.
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I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
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Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
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He's very ambitious and will do anything to be in power.




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The war on drugs is really no war at all — it's a business!
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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.
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I don't like to talk about Jerry Brown. I don't like him.
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He's totally into power.
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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!
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Jerry has no political or ideological anchor.
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Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.
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Some of the same rhetoric used by the law-and-order crowd has been used by authoritarian states over and over again.




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[Jerry Brown] is the most self-serving, inept politician that I have ever met in my 35 years in politics.
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When I say the U.S. Government is taking another step down the road to totalitarianism, I'm not just saying that for rhetorical effect. There is a systematic movement to extinguish the liberties of the American people.
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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.
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I don't think Jerry Brown is committed to anything but Jerry Brown.
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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.
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Jerry Brown was just a nut.
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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That's why we have to look at the death penalty as part of a larger pattern that is inhuman.
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Oftentimes Jerry will run for an office and not want to do the things that are part of that office.


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