110+ Jesse Ventura Quotes (Adventurous, Outspoken And Progressive.)

Jesse Ventura is an American politician, actor, author, veteran, and former professional wrestler. He served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He is a member of the Reform Party and was the first and only member of that party to ever be elected to a state office.

Top 10 Jesse Ventura Quotes

1. If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
2. I love my country, not my government.
3. When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
4. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
5. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
6. A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
7. If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
8. A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.
9. If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.
10. Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

Jesse Ventura Short Quotes

• There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
• Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
• The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
• If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.
• Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
• Wrestling is ballet with violence.
• I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport ,the metal detector goes off.
• There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
• They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
• I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

Jesse Ventura Famous Quotes And Sayings

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them. — Jesse Ventura

Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. — Jesse Ventura

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature. — Jesse Ventura

Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them. — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars. — Jesse Ventura

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again. — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

[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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' — Jesse Ventura

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra. — Jesse Ventura

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

I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that. — Jesse Ventura

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.' — Jesse Ventura

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them. — Jesse Ventura

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game. — Jesse Ventura

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. — Jesse Ventura

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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? — Jesse Ventura

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government. — Jesse Ventura

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

...the priority of the Democrats and Republicans...is to preserve...power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority...is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise. — Jesse Ventura

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one. — Jesse Ventura

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes? — Jesse Ventura

I ain't got time to bleed. — Jesse Ventura

Post-traumatic stress, that's why the soldiers need marijuana, is for their mental health. It makes them feel better so that they don't have the horrors of war in their mind all the time. And the government won't allow them to have it, because it's illegal - federally. It's absurd. — Jesse Ventura

If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then. — Jesse Ventura

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

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense. — Jesse Ventura

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

When I was governor, if I told a joke in front of the press - I learned. I would go, "That was a joke, joke, joke," and I'd say it three times. — Jesse Ventura

I don't have the patience to sit and write. — Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate morality. — Jesse Ventura

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

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.' — Jesse Ventura

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

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. — Jesse Ventura

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be. — Jesse Ventura

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show. — Jesse Ventura

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control. — Jesse Ventura

Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet. — Jesse Ventura

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else? — Jesse Ventura

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles. — Jesse Ventura

People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress. — Jesse Ventura

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend. — Jesse Ventura

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it. — Jesse Ventura

Government is connected to everything we do. — Jesse Ventura

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. — Jesse Ventura

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

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.' — Jesse Ventura

I'm an equal opportunity despiser. — Jesse Ventura

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

Life Lessons by Jesse Ventura

1. Jesse Ventura's career shows that hard work and dedication can lead to success, even if you come from a non-traditional background.
2. He also demonstrates the importance of standing up for what you believe in and not being afraid to challenge the status quo.
3. Finally, Ventura's career shows that it is possible to make a difference in politics without being a part of the mainstream political establishment.