Jesse Ventura Quotes
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I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.
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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 believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
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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'm an Angus King independent.
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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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I'm an equal opportunity despiser.
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Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Having been a villain in wrestling, my relationship with the media has always been rocky. They don't view wrestling for what it really is, entertainment.
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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.
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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.
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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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There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
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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.
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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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I believe in the separation of church and state... We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all... They are all citizens of Minnesota and I have to respect that.
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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.
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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 tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.