Jerry Brown: “I acknowledge that I am distinguished but not infallible. Sometimes I even wonder if I am distinguished. But let me tell…”

“I acknowledge that I am distinguished but not infallible. Sometimes I even wonder if I am distinguished. But let me tell you that without pretending to understand all of the implications of this bill, I found out very quickly, when it was placed on the schedule, that there are a lot of extremely worried people out there who should know what they are talking about or who, on the other hand, may be totally paranoid. It may well be that there are a lot of paranoid people out there. I suspect that what has happened here is that those organizations, and I have circulated a ``Dear Colleague'' letter which lists these, and they include some of the most distinguished organizations in this country, beginning with the library associations and the AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and many others are worried about this bill. They may be worried because they do not understand it, and I will confess that. Their tactics seem to be not necessarily to kill the bill, but to allow more time for these scholars and academics and so forth to see if they can find flaws in it and to present those flaws for protection.”