“There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.”
― Jesse Ventura
“In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Tell the truth because then you don’t have to have a good memory.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.’”
― Jesse Ventura
“Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That’s just my nature.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You can’t legislate against stupidity.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m tolerant of all religions… I don’t care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Let’s remember, the CIA’s job is to go out and create wars.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I don’t support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don’t even like.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Let’s face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven’t done their job.”
― Jesse Ventura
“The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m going to put on my gravestone, ‘He never owned a cell phone.’”
― Jesse Ventura
“I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask – if he had ever seen Caddyshack.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide… but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.”
― Jesse Ventura
“The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“There’s nothing glamorous about war at all.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You don’t need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Whenever the government says, ‘It’s time to move on,’ that means there’s something they don’t want you to know about.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
― Jesse Ventura
“If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That’s power.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You can’t legislate morality.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I decided to run for governor because I got mad… I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I don’t believe we need the government’s help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I’m finished with my term as governor, I’m going back to the life that’s waiting for me in the private sector.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can’t possibly all be served by government.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“If I wanna be president, I probably can.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Don’t vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m an equal opportunity despiser.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“’The David Letterman Show’ is a show of comedy.”
― Jesse Ventura
“My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“We’re the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Love is bigger than government.”
― Jesse Ventura
“If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I don’t oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that’s what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.”
― Jesse Ventura
“It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m saying that there’s way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’ve been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it’s torture.”
― Jesse Ventura
“If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I’d become a terrorist, too. I’d go to war against the U.S.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.’”
― Jesse Ventura
“I don’t support communism. I don’t like that type of government.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I can’t see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.”
― Jesse Ventura
“What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators… they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren’t?”
― Jesse Ventura
“I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.”
― Jesse Ventura
“When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I never thought I’d be investigating global warming. I believe it’s real and that saving the planet is good.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!”
― Jesse Ventura
“People don’t like politicians.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Sarah Palin’s a quitter.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I speak my mind. That’s who I am.”
― Jesse Ventura
“’The Young and the Restless’ is my favorite television show.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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?”
― Jesse Ventura
“If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I’d not only run, I’d win.”
― Jesse Ventura
“If Jesus came back today, I think he’d throw up.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I tend to like to read history – recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer’s imagination.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m an Angus King independent.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Is it government’s job to make up for someone’s mistakes?”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Government is connected to everything we do.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn’t interact directly with government.”
― Jesse Ventura
“There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you’re all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That’s a stereotype that happens.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You can’t put civil rights on the ballot.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m not allowed on FOX, and I’m not allowed on MSNBC.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Liberty is security. Freedom is security.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Governments are run by people. People can be bad.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?”
― Jesse Ventura
“If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something’s wrong with that, when you’re making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Our military doesn’t defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.”
― Jesse Ventura
“My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I don’t take PAC money. I don’t take special interest money.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.’”
― Jesse Ventura
“Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There’s nothing you can do about it.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I’m the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, ‘What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,’ but apparently that doesn’t apply to me.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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?”
― Jesse Ventura
“I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.”
― Jesse Ventura
“In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.”
― Jesse Ventura
“You’re lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.”
― Jesse Ventura
“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.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they’re government jobs.”
― Jesse Ventura
“A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Republicans are not a political party. It’s a mental condition.”
― Jesse Ventura
“I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Government is like physics, you know – for every action, there’s a reaction.”
― Jesse Ventura
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