Jesse Ventura Quotes - Page 4

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Al Gore in 2000. He got a half a million more votes than George Bush and lost. How can that be? It's ridiculous. It's an elitist system. It's so they pick your President. You don't - the people - and it needs to be abolished.

The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can't legislate morality.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The pleasure was all yours.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

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

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.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

A bag of quality marijuana in Minnesota will cost you 400 bucks, in Colorado it'll cost you 100 and a quarter. Medical Marijuana, a pill that you've got to pay for - which, it's allowed in Minnesota, but it's so restricted - costs $600 a month. If you live in Colorado you can get the same medical marijuana for $30 a month. See why it needs to be legalized across the board?

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.

How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.