Jerry Brown/mayor of Oakland 1999%e2%80%932007

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    “Who talks of Plato’s spindle;
    What set it whirling round?
    Eternity may dwindle,
    Time is unwound,
    Dan and Jerry Lout
    Change their loves about.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “They won’t come to learn, only to stare. I’ll be a freak in a sideshow: Lazarus the Second! Fifty cents to look, a dollar to touch.”
    —Karl Brown (1897–1990)

    “If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.”
    —Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)