Jesse Ventura Quotes - Page 8

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

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.

I ain't got time to bleed.

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'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.

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

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.

My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.

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.

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

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

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

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

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

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

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.'

Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

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

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

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

Government is connected to everything we do.

People don't like politicians.

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