Jesse Ventura quotes:

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  • Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

  • Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

  • When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

  • I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

  • Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

  • Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

  • My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

  • The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

  • Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

  • I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

  • I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

  • I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

  • Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

  • I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

  • There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

  • Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

  • I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  • There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

  • When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

  • Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

  • Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

  • I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

  • Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

  • All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

  • I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

  • In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

  • Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

  • I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

  • The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

  • Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

  • We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

  • In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

  • I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

  • If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

  • Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

  • WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

  • I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

  • There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

  • After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

  • Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

  • I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

  • Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

  • If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

  • I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

  • I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

  • Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

  • Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

  • Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

  • I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

  • People don't like politicians.

  • My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.

  • You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

  • I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

  • Love is bigger than government.

  • Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

  • Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

  • I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.

  • Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

  • The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

  • My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

  • There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

  • For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

  • Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

  • The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

  • I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

  • A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

  • If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

  • I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

  • Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

  • I ain't got time to bleed.

  • Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.

  • If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

  • ...[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm...

  • Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

  • They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

  • Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

  • Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

  • I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

  • Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

  • There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

  • I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you....

  • Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

  • Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist....

  • If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

  • How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.

  • Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

  • I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  • If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  • When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

  • I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.

  • I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

  • I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

  • A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

  • Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.

  • I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

  • As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

  • If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

  • Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

  • It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

  • I love my country, not my government.

  • Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

  • I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

  • If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  • I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

  • I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'

  • Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

  • Sarah Palin's a quitter.

  • I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

  • A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying,

  • I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

  • I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

  • Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

  • Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  • I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

  • People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.

  • The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

  • You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

  • A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

  • I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

  • You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

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