Jesse Ventura Quotes
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If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
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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.
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I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
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When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
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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.
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I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.
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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.
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I am not a career politician. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm a working man with commonsense ideas and goals. I describe myself politically as fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal.
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I'm an equal opportunity despiser.
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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.
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Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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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.
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The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
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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.
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If I wanna be president, I probably can.
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I give kudos to them for having the courage to bring me here... The risk is, I'm not the status quo.
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I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
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I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!
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I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.
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If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
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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.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.