Quotes from Jesse Ventura

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

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.

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

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

If you ride in a group, then you're okay. Then the cars will respect you. But if you're riding alone, you get no respect out there from cars at all.

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.

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

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

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.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them.

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.

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.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.