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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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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If I wanna be president, I probably can.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
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I started stating that maybe I should run for governor. Well, it caught on like wildfire. I felt I'd boxed myself into a corner-if I didn't attempt to do this, I would lose my credibility. And in the world of talk radio, once that happens, you're finished.
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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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There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per teacher ensures more 1-on-1 contact, better classroom discipline, you name it.
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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 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 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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Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
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Could someone please tell me how this will affect me? Come on, this is Harvard, folks. I came all the way out here to learn this.
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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.