A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
— Jesse Ventura
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.
Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
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.
I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.
In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.
Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.
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.
A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.
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.
In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.
I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.
Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?
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.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
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.
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
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.
In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.
I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.
When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
There's nothing glamorous about war at all.
I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
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.
Liberty is security. Freedom is security.
Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
