Quotes from Jesse 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.

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Love is bigger than government.

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

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

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

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

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?

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

I'm an Angus King independent.

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 find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

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

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

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

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.

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.