Jesse Ventura Quotes
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After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
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There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
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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'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.
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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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The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
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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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I would rather face the terrorists than lose my civil liberties. If protecting our safety means taking away our Bill of Rights, then could I be so crass and bold as to scream 'Give me liberty or give me death'? Once freedom is gone-the bedrock foundation that built our country-what's left to stand for and believe in?
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I get very disturbed when I see people demonstrating with signs that say 'Welfare Rights.' There is nothing in the Constitution that says you have a right to welfare! Do you know what welfare is? It's taking money from someone who is working to give to someone who's not!
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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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People don't like politicians.
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I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.
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Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
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I believe very strongly that guns are instruments of death. That's all they're used for; there's no purpose for them other than to kill. I think you have to understand that in order to respect them. I have no fear of my teenage son handling weapons, because he has that respect.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
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I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
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I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
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It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.
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We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
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I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
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I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
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My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.