Jesse Ventura Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

You can't legislate stupidity.

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

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 believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

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.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

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

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.

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

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

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 live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

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

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

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