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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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Jerry is perceived by most legislators as very selfish.
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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!
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The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.




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Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.
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I don't think you can take much of what he says seriously.
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A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family — the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House — are getting away literally with murder.
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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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That's why we have to look at the death penalty as part of a larger pattern that is inhuman.
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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Jerry Brown was just a nut.
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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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I don't think Jerry Brown is committed to anything but Jerry Brown.
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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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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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[Jerry Brown] is the most self-serving, inept politician that I have ever met in my 35 years in politics.
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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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Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.
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Jerry has no political or ideological anchor.
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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 has given hypocrisy a bad name.


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