Best 219 quotes of Jesse Ventura on MyQuotes

A bag of quality marijuana in Minnesota will cost you 400 bucks, in Colorado it'll cost you 100 and a quarter. Medical Marijuana, a pill that you've got to pay for - which, it's allowed in Minnesota, but it's so restricted - costs $600 a month. If you live in Colorado you can get the same medical marijuana for $30 a month. See why it needs to be legalized across the board?

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

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.

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

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.

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.

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.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

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?

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

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

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.

Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.

Donald Trump is not a Republican, he's an Independent.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

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

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.

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.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Going to war is an easy decision.

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

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

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

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

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.

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.

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.

I ain't got time to bleed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I can unequivocally tell you I would not have sent my kid to the Iraq war.

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

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

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.

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.

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 oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

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