Jesse Ventura > Quotes

“I love my country, not my government.”
― Jesse Ventura

“Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.”
― Jesse Ventura

“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."

(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)”
― Jesse Ventura

“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. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.”
― Jesse Ventura

“I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?”
― Jesse Ventura

“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.”
― Jesse Ventura

“There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. ”
― Jesse Ventura

“Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorists. You will see Bin Laden there, bring his name up and his picture. Amazingly, all the charges: the embassy of '98 and this other stuff is all listed. But, ironically nothing on 9/11. NOTHING! Now when the FBI was pressed as to why 9/11 wasn't included, their response was "We don't have enough evidence." Now, people, if you're like me that is extremely disturbing; we've fought two wars, we've changed our entire foreign policy and we've had the PATRIOT act put on us, all, supposedly, because of Osama Bin Laden!”
― Jesse Ventura

“George Bush keeps saying that terrorists keep attacking us because we have freedom here in America. So what, the solution is to take away our freedoms and they won't attack us?”
― 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

“It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!”
― Jesse Ventura

“Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!”
― Jesse Ventura

“Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”
― Jesse Ventura

“I asked the Dalai Lama the most important question, I think, that you could ask him — if he'd ever seen Caddyshack.”
― Jesse Ventura

“You can't legislate stupidity.”
― Jesse Ventura

“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”
― Jesse Ventura

“If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.”
― Jesse Ventura

“It ain't how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose.”
― Jesse Ventura

“Enhanced Interrogation is Dick Cheney changing a word, Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass!”
― Jesse Ventura