Top 100 Jesse Ventura Quotes
#1. Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.
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#2. Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers ... they are obviously alcoholics.
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#3. In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.
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#4. 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.
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#5. In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
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#6. I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.
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#7. 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 ...
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#8. 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.
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#9. The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
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#10. Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
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#11. A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
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#15. In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
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#16. They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
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#17. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.
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#22. I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
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#23. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
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#24. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.
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#25. I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. George Bush keeps saying that terrorists keep attacking us because we have freedom here in America. So what, the solution is to take away our freedoms and they won't attack us?
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#29. I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.
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#32. Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
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#34. 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.
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#35. When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.
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#36. Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
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#37. 'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
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#39. I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
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#40. I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
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#41. You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
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#42. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
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#43. 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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#44. Enhanced Interrogation is Dick Cheney changing a word, Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass!
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#45. If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
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#46. 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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#47. The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.
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#48. You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)
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#49. 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.
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#50. Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
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#51. All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays ... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
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#53. I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
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#54. How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
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#57. If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
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#58. As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
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#60. I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.
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#61. Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.
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#62. Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?
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#63. I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.
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#64. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you ...
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#65. 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.
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#66. My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.
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#67. There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
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#68. Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?
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#69. 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.
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#70. Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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#71. 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.'
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#72. I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.
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#73. I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
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#74. It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.
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#76. My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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#77. Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.
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#78. I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
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#79. Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.
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#80. I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
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#81. 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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#82. Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ...
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#83. Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
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#84. 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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#86. 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.
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#87. When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
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#88. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
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#89. Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
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#91. My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.
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#92. I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
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#93. 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.
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#94. I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
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#95. There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
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#96. Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
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#97. Until you have hunted men, you haven't hunted yet.
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#98. I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.
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#99. Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.
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#100. It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!
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