Jesse Ventura Quotes

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.

With freedom comes responsibility

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.

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?

Government cannot be your parent.

The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.

Government is connected to everything we do.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

I'm an equal opportunity despiser.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

If you buy the flag it's yours to burn.

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

You can't legislate morality.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.