Top 88 Jesse Ventura Quotes

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

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

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

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.

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

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

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

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn’t figure into was human nature, and that’s what corrupts it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. ‘Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.’

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

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.

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

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That’s power.

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.

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.

If you start studying history closer, you’ll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people – to convince the people that they’re under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they’ll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he’ll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don’t even like.

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.

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people’s tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

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

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide… but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

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

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.

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.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That’s just my nature.

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

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.’

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

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

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

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

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

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

‘The David Letterman Show’ is a show of comedy.

Sarah Palin‘s a quitter.

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.

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

If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

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.

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.

There’s nothing glamorous about war at all.

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

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

People don’t like politicians.

You can’t legislate against stupidity.

I’m an equal opportunity despiser.

Our military doesn’t defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

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.

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.

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.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask – if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

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.

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

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.’

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.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom.

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.

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.

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.