Quotes by Jesse Ventura

About Jesse Ventura:

James George Janos is an American former professional wrestler, actor, political commentator, author, naval veteran, and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was the first and only member of the Reform Party to win a major government position, but later joined the Independence Party of Minnesota.
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Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

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

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....

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 agai...

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

Jesse Ventura

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

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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...

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Jesse Ventura

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

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You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJesse Ventura
  • DescriptionAmerican politician and former professional wrestler
  • BornJuly 15, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Radio Host; Writer; Politician