Top 160 Jesse Ventura Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You can’t legislate stupidity.”

— Jesse Ventura

52. “The pleasure was all yours.”

— Jesse Ventura

53. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

54. “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

55. “When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.”

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Jesse Ventura

57. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

58. “A vote is “wasted” when someone fails to vote their conscience.”

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Jesse Ventura

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

64. “I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don’t even like.”

— Jesse Ventura

65. “Dusty Rhodes wouldn’t win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he’d win for MOST abs.”

— Jesse Ventura

66. “If you buy the flag it’s yours to burn.”

— Jesse Ventura

67. “I speak my mind. That’s who I am.”

— Jesse Ventura

68. “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

69. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

70. “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

71. “They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.”

— Jesse Ventura

72. “Republicans are not a political party. It’s a mental condition.”

— Jesse Ventura

73. “Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.”

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Jesse Ventura

75. “I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask – if he had ever seen Caddyshack.”

— Jesse Ventura

76. “In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”

— Jesse Ventura

77. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

78. “I’m going to put on my gravestone, ‘He never owned a cell phone.’”

— Jesse Ventura

79. “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

80. “My attitude when I’m in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don’t wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I’m hungry and go to sleep when I’m tired.”

— Jesse Ventura

81. “I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.”

— Jesse Ventura

82. “When we build a public library, we don’t have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.”

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Jesse Ventura

84. “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

85. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

86. “Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.”

— Jesse Ventura

87. “The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don’t have to legalize, just decriminalize it.”

— Jesse Ventura

88. “I don’t want Democrats in the boardroom and I don’t want Republicans in the bedroom.”

— Jesse Ventura

89. “If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That’s power.”

— Jesse Ventura

90. “Want a hot dog, McMahon?”

— Jesse Ventura

91. “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

92. “I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. ‘Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.’”

— Jesse Ventura

93. “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

94. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

95. “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

96. “If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that – so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.”

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Jesse Ventura

98. “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.”

— Jesse Ventura

99. “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

100. “I’m not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I’m pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don’t think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.”

— Jesse Ventura