Jesse Ventura Quotes

If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.

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

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

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

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

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.

If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

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

I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.

The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.

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?

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

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

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

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.

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

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

I ain't got time to bleed.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.

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

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.

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?

Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

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.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

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.

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

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

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.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would affect literally every Minnesotan in some way or another, if not all Americans in some way or another....The local media sent no one out to cover my testimony....Well, then a couple weeks later, I go out to do The Young and the Restless, the TV soap opera, and everybody sends crews. We had to move them into a room in three different sections or three shifts of them because there was so much media covering that.

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

With freedom comes responsibility

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

People don't like politicians.

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.

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

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

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

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

If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.

Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet.

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.

When I ran for governor, I told all the bikers, "You don't need to worry about me bringing in a helmet law. It's your option because you as a motorcycle rider that's your option. It doesn't come with the bike."