Jerry Quotes

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

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.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

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!

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.

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

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.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

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.

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!

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

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.

Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.