Liberty Pen: Firing Line With William F. Buckley- Governor Jerry Brown (1975)

Source:Liberty Pen- Governor Jerry Brown (Democrat, California) on Firing Line With William F. Buckley, in 1975.

"Jerry Brown, 1975. An innovative free thinker before party politics ground him into a garden-variety statist. Liberty Pen." 

From Liberty Pen 

Governor Jerry Brown making the case for limited government, on PBS's Firing Line With William F. Buckley in 1975. That there's only so much a government in any country can do for simple reasons that it only has so much money and personal it can work with either because the economy is somewhat limited, or there's only so much money that's it taxpayers are willing to pay government, or there's only so much money that government can borrow, either from the private sector or from other countries, or from the U.S. Government. But that most countries, even in the developed world like in America can have unlimited problems and issues. So government has to make choices with the limited resources that it has. 

Jerry Brown doesn't sound look like the radical, lefty, hippie, from the 1960s and 70s that he generally gets stereotyped as, at least before he became Governor of California again in 2011. And I think this is because as a governor of a state you are forced to prioritize and become pragmatic, because the buck literally stops with you (to paraphrase President Harry S. Truman) and you have to deliver for your state. And are forced to save the partisan, extreme, political rhetoric, for the campaign trail.