Jesse Ventura Quotes
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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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I feel used. I feel violated and duped over the fact that that turned into nothing more than a political rally.
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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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If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.
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I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.
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You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
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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'd like to work on having every fourth year become a year in which no laws are made, but the old laws are reviewed, updated, or deleted as needed. That way we won't get endless, obsolete laws piling up on the books.
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I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.
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I am not a career politician. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm a working man with commonsense ideas and goals. I describe myself politically as fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal.
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Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
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It's panhandling. . . That's the system we have, though. It's based on bribery.
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Government is connected to everything we do.
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People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.
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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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There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
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I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
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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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For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
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A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.
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I looked at my wife and said, 'You know what? If these people put their own dollar-an-hour raise above the integrity of our nation, I don't wanna be their boss anymore.'
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I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.
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They're Crips and Bloods in Brooks Brothers suits.