Top 261 Quotes & Sayings by Jesse Ventura - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

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.

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.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

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

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

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

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.

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

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'm an equal opportunity despiser.

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.

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

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

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

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 an Angus King independent.

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.

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.

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 support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Love is bigger than government.

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

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.

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

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

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?

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

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 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.

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

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

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.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

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.

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

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

People don't like politicians.