Jerry Brown

Well, yes, recall the initiative the referendum but recall is rarely used, except in the last decade or so big money has been able to put recall successfully before the people. Now this one is going to go down to defeat, because for a very…

Maybe this is now the new normal and he suggested maybe climate change is exacerbating the conditions that lead to blazes like this.

She can't just, you know, shoot and make this email story go away. It is like a vampire. It keeps coming back. Got to put a stack in the heart.

It's a historic drought that demands unprecedented action.

California Governor Jerry Brown today signed a bill banning a controversy therapy aimed at turning gay kids straight.

We are a very powerful if not the most powerful country in the world. And if the country cannot make decisions about how it spends money or how it deals with its basic problems, but instead squabbles with the scapegoating, finger-pointing…

Howard K. Stern is the principal enabler. And Dr. Eroshevich and Dr. Kapoor are prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names, all in violation of the law.

My job is to defend the law of the people, but that law also includes the Constitution itself. And when we harmonize the two, we come down on the side of the fundamental liberty interests. And that's the issue that really turns this case…

Countrywide is a gross example of the rip-off that we now are paying for.

We do know, from the public record, that there's someone who is dead. And her body, upon investigation, is full of controlled substances and combinations of drugs that turned out to be lethal.

I want him to go after the thousands of people who die in California every year -- their physicians who are prescribing and over prescribing.

Well, you don't go to a judge and get a search warrant for somebody's home unless you think some rather serious crime has been committed.

This is a job about justice and fairness, and also about compassion.

This country is overcommitted, it's underfunded and we need discipline and vision and I don't see it in Washington.

I'm not naive. I've got the full grasp of what we're up against. And we are up against something no less than urban terrorism.

I have been battle tested. Two blocks from here I built a place, right here, first one. Two blocks away, there have been two murders since I moved in. That's why for me crime fighting is not an abstraction, it's not a political rhetoric…

We're not dealing with global warming, we're not dealing with the growing gap between the rich and the poor. We're not getting off of foreign oil.

Well, just look at this beautiful state. I care about California. I care about the environment. It's under assault in Washington. I care about women's rights. I care about preserving this wonderful state that has given my family, myself so…

Let me make clear tht I did not say that the gentleman's amendment was a 10 percent cut in the NSF Budget. I said that his amendment was a 10% cut in the amount of money that would otherwise go to this fine agency. His amendment is $270…

I presume that the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) is trying to hint to me so that I should not beat this subject to death so we can move on with his bill. But I am very deeply concerned that we progress in terms of understanding…

There is a matter of the social dislocation caused by the impact of what we are spending here, and I recognize that, as I think all of us should recognize, that in the long run, fossil energy is what we may have to depend upon when all of…

I accept that. Now let us get together and fight to get a little bit more money for these accounts when we go to conference with the Senate, and I trust the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Skaggs) will be a conferee.

I am glad the gentleman made this point. As the gentleman probably knows, there has been considerable publicity within the last few weeks about a private research organization which has stated it can do the remainder of the human genome…

Just one anecdote that I recalled after I sat down about Sonny. That is, amongst many times that I met with Sonny, there was one occasion when he did not show up; and that was most unusual. I had difficulty understanding why until an…