Jesse Ventura Quotes

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

I'm an Angus King independent.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

People don't like politicians.

I don't have the patience to sit and write.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

If you ride in a group, then you're okay. Then the cars will respect you. But if you're riding alone, you get no respect out there from cars at all.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

The media doesn't educate anyone.

I make my own music and I don't criticize others.

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

Donald Trump is not a Republican, he's an Independent.

When I was governor, if I told a joke in front of the press - I learned. I would go, "That was a joke, joke, joke," and I'd say it three times.

If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.

I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

I can unequivocally tell you I would not have sent my kid to the Iraq war.

Going to war is an easy decision.

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

I'm a better talker than writer.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

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