"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
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"I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen."
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"Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system."
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"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."
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"I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better."
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"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."
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"Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change."
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"America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts."
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"Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people."
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
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"Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right."
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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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"There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist."
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"The government is becoming the family of last resort."
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"I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I`m committed to that. But I`m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production."
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"We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are."
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"In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it."
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"Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same."
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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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"If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades."
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