Jesse Ventura Quotes
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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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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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You can't legislate morality.
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When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
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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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A third-party candidate is never treated equally. They look at you as a novelty, as cannon fodder. 'This is entertaining,' they think, 'but we'll go back to the Democrats and Republicans, because only they can run our government.' Which is baloney.
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When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
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It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.
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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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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
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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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There's nothing glamorous about war at all.
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People don't like politicians.
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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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Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.
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When you have an opportunity to learn, you become smarter at more things. Having run government for four years, and being in charge of 26 departments, that's an education. So I think I'm savvier today. And probably more cynical.
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Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
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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 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'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
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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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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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In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.
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You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.