Jesse Ventura Quotes - Page 5

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.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

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

Love is bigger than government.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Want a hot dog, McMahon?

The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.

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

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.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

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

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

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.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

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.

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

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

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

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

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.