Jesse Ventura Quotes
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I want to believe that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but now I have doubts. If they were responsible, I am beginning to think it was not without some knowledge of those impending attacks on our side.
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The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
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I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
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You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
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Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.
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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?
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They could care less about the public. The public comes in third. Number one is keeping their power. Number two are the special interests, the people footing the bill. Finally, the public good might be third - if they can profit from it. If there's no profit, they could care less.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.
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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 live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
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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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If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
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If I wanna be president, I probably can.
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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 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.
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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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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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Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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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.
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To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization.
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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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The current use of the National Guard is wrong... These are men who did not sign up to go occupy foreign nations.
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There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.