Quotes from Jesse Ventura

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

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.

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

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.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

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.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

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.

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

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.