Jesse Ventura Quotes
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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 think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?
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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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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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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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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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There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
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You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
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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 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'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 tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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My major criticism of today's media is, they're no longer reporting the news, they're creating it. When that happens, you're in deep trouble.
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People don't like politicians.
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I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.
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If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
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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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Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.
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You can't legislate morality.
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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.
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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
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I'm an Angus King independent.
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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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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.