Jesse Ventura Quotes
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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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I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
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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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When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
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I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
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Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.
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When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
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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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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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There's nothing glamorous about war at all.
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People don't like politicians.
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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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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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You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
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We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.