Jerry Brown Quotes About Economy

• 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.

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  "Governor Brown, Senate President pro Tempore and Assembly Speaker Support Raising California’s Minimum Wage". www.gov.ca.gov. September 11, 2013.

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• When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

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• The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].

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  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

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• Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

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  "Governor Brown Sworn In, Delivers Inaugural Address". Jerry Brown's inaugural address in the Assembly Chamber, www.gov.ca.gov. January 5, 2015.

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• The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

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  Jerry Brown (1976). “Thoughts”

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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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