Jesse Ventura Quotes

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'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.

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.

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.

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

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it.

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.

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.

The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.

Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?

Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he didn't want hemp to be used for paper, he wanted to force everyone to buy his trees. And that's why he was the one that spearheaded making it illegal in Washington. Always follow the money, it's done for money purposes.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

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

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

...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.

You can't legislate morality.

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

Love is bigger than government.

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

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