Jesse Ventura Quotes
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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.
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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 will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
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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 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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Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
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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'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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If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
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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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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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I'm an equal opportunity despiser.
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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'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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If I wanna be president, I probably can.
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The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.
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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.