Jesse Ventura Quotes
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I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
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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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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'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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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 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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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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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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I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
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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'm an Angus King independent.
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It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.
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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'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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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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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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You can't legislate morality.
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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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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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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 can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.