Ventura Quotes

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

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 against the law! ~ Jesse Ventura

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. ~ Jesse Ventura

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be. ~ Jesse Ventura

I'm just a laid-back person. ~ Cassie Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance. ~ Gabe Newell

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.' ~ Jesse Ventura

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it. ~ Jesse Ventura

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 to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions? ~ Jesse Ventura

The world is actually a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well, mirroring your changes. ~ Chris Prentiss

Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing. ~ Chris Prentiss

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.' ~ Jesse Ventura

Free Falling
She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too
It's a long day livin' in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
I'm a bad boy, 'cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart
And I'm free, I'm free fallin'
All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Blvd
All the bad boys are standing in the shadows
All the good girls are home with broken hearts
And I'm free, I'm free fallin'
I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I wanna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for a while
And I'm free, I'm free fallin ~ Tom Petty

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be. ~ Chris Prentiss

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling. ~ Chris Prentiss

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that. ~ Cassie Ventura

I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes. ~ Tasha Smith

Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there's a supreme being? There's no proof of it. There's no harm in saying you're an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don't believe necessarily that there's a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I'm in good company ... Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It's not like I'm not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world. ~ Jesse Ventura

I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill. ~ Parvesh Cheena

I speak my mind. That's who I am. ~ Jesse Ventura

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy. ~ Michael Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life? ~ Michael Ventura

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. ~ Jesse Ventura

I ain't got time to bleed. ~ 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

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

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor. ~ Jesse Ventura

If you buy the flag it's yours to burn. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

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

What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators ... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't? ~ Jesse Ventura

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there. ~ Jesse Ventura

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. ~ David Minge

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us. ~ Jesse Ventura

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition. ~ Jesse Ventura

Just remember ... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one ~ Cassie Ventura

If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. ~ Chris Prentiss

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled. ~ Michael Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate against stupidity. ~ Jesse Ventura

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence. ~ Michael Ventura

People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it. ~ Michael Ventura

I'm an equal opportunity despiser. ~ Jesse Ventura

I'm a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times. ~ Cassie Ventura

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

Government cannot be your parent. ~ Jesse Ventura

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week. ~ Jesse Ventura

I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would affect literally every Minnesotan in some way or another, if not all Americans in some way or another ... The local media sent no one out to cover my testimony ... Well, then a couple weeks later, I go out to do The Young and the Restless, the TV soap opera, and everybody sends crews. We had to move them into a room in three different sections or three shifts of them because there was so much media covering that. ~ Jesse Ventura

My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.' ~ Eliza Coupe

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s. ~ Jesse Ventura

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you. ~ Michael Ventura

I'm an Angus King independent. ~ Jesse Ventura

We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging. ~ Chris Prentiss

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. ~ Michael Ventura

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

The priority of the Democrats and Republicans ... is to preserve ... power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority ... is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009) ~ Jesse Ventura

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

The people that you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you. When your children see you owned, they are not your children any more, they are the children of what owns you. If money owns you, they are the children of money. If your need for pretense and illusion owns you, they are the children of pretense and illusion. If your fear of loneliness owns you, they are the children of loneliness. If your fear of the truth owns you, they are the children of fear of the truth. ~ Michael Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

I love my country, not my government. ~ Jesse Ventura

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank. ~ Jesse Ventura

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 ... ~ Jesse Ventura

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC. ~ Jesse Ventura

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons ... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part. ~ Cassie Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty. ~ Michael Ventura

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture. ~ Jesse Ventura

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000. ~ Jesse Ventura

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. ~ Jesse Ventura

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... ~ Jesse Ventura

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. ~ Jim Carrey

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 live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live. ~ Jesse Ventura

In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded. ~ Michael Ventura

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.' ~ Jesse Ventura