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.
— Jesse Ventura
I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.
I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.
Love is bigger than government.
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
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 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.
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
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.
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
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.'
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.
If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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.
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
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 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 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.
If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
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.
You can't legislate against stupidity.
We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.
I'm an equal opportunity despiser.
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
If I wanna be president, I probably can.
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
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 decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
