Jesse Ventura Quotes & Sayings

What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators ... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't? — Jesse Ventura

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

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. — Jesse Ventura

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents. — Jesse Ventura

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. — Jesse Ventura

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it. — Jesse Ventura

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money. — Jesse Ventura

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me. — Jesse Ventura

I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game. — Jesse Ventura

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. — Jesse Ventura

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

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! — Jesse Ventura

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

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

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

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

I ain't got time to bleed. — Jesse Ventura

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature. — Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate against stupidity. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off. — Jesse Ventura

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile. — Jesse Ventura

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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? — Jesse Ventura

I'm an Angus King independent. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Wrestling is ballet with violence. — Jesse Ventura

In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week. — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Governments are run by people. People can be bad. — Jesse Ventura

Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there's a supreme being? There's no proof of it. There's no harm in saying you're an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don't believe necessarily that there's a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I'm in good company ... Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It's not like I'm not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world. — Jesse Ventura

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

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. — Jesse Ventura

I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to? — Jesse Ventura

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

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

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

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it. — Jesse Ventura

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

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

I'm an equal opportunity despiser. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you ... — Jesse Ventura

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. — Jesse Ventura

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. — Jesse Ventura

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

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

If I wanna be president, I probably can. — Jesse Ventura

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

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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.' — Jesse Ventura

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government. — Jesse Ventura

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

If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. — Jesse Ventura

Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

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

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

Government is connected to everything we do. — Jesse Ventura

The priority of the Democrats and Republicans ... is to preserve ... power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority ... is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise. — Jesse Ventura

What I found most refreshing about Governor Ventura was his willingness to defend his positions and attack his interrogators ... He's an imposing man who's not easily intimidated, and he's convinced he has the aura that will take him to higher places. — Jesse Ventura

Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything. — Jesse Ventura