Top 95 Jesse Ventura Quotes

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

I’m against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

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 believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide… but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

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.

Love is bigger than government.

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

I don’t oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that’s what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

If you’re smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

You can’t put civil rights on the ballot.

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

My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they’ll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he’ll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

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.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That’s power.

Government is connected to everything we do.

I’m kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

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.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

My position is that it isn’t government’s job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

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.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

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

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

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

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.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn’t belong to either party since George Washington.

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.

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

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

I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. ‘Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.’

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask – if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.

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

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.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

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

I speak my mind. That’s who I am.

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

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.’

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

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

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.

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

When you drink fluoridated water, you’re drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it’s a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I believe in the America people’s ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

You can’t legislate against stupidity.

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.

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

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 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?

I’m going to put on my gravestone, ‘He never owned a cell phone.’