Jesse Ventura Quotes
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I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
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Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.
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I thought to myself, 'This is Harvard', You expect Harvard to be this stuffy, arrogant place. But then you get here and see how bright everyone is - what could be better? I loved it.
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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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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
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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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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 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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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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You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
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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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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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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
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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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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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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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Government is connected to everything we do.
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A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.
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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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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.