Quotes by Jesse Ventura

“I love my country, not my government.”

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

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

“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...”

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

“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. Prohibiting something do...”

“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 ...”

“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 t...”

“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: t...”

“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 a...”

“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 o...”

“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.”

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”

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

“I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.”

“I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.”

“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.”