Top 261 Quotes & Sayings by Jesse Ventura - Page 3

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

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

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

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

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

I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Government is connected to everything we do.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

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

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

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

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

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

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.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

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.'

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

Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

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

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

Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them.

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.

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.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

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.

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

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

One out of four people internationally believe if their country goes to war, The United States would be the opponent. As a veteran, I hang my head in shame over that.

...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.

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?

You can't legislate stupidity.

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.

I love my country, not my government.

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.