Jesse Ventura Quotes

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.

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.

They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

The pleasure was all yours.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

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.

You can't legislate stupidity.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

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.

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.

Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

Seat belts come with a car so therefore you should be required to use them, but a helmet does not come with the bike.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

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.'

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.

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.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.

Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?

One out of four people internationally believe if their country goes to war, The United States would be the opponent. As a veteran, I hang my head in shame over that.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

Want a hot dog, McMahon?

Love is bigger than government.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

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.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.