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You're all welcome in California.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
We're going to move left and right at the same time.
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.
The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.
Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.
Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.
The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.
My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe
Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.
I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn`t even bother to show up.
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
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.
America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.
Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
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.
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!
Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.
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!