Jesse Ventura quotes - page 5

I would rather face the terrorists than lose my civil liberties. (Jesse Ventura)
It was the realization that, if packaged the correct way, the news could make you big bucks. View quote
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That's what I find weak and destructive. View quote
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You don't want to encourage people to do such a thing. View quote
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No law will make a citizen a patriot. View quote
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Another of the religious right's scams is marching into public school science classes and trying to mandate teaching of "creation science," as opposed to evolution. Somehow, they put evolutionism and creationism in the same category-believing that one makes the other impossible. View quote
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Given how many convicts awaiting capital punishment have been cleared because of DNA evidence, I no longer support the death penalty. View quote
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Where I draw the line is at gun registration. A law that says that everybody who owns a gun has to be on record is too easy to abuse. View quote
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I proved that you could be at 10 percent and still end up winning. And I did it in a mere eight weeks. View quote
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War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. View quote
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There's a great need in our government right now for honesty. I speak my mind. You might not always like what you hear, but you're gonna hear it anyway. I call it like I see it; I tell the truth. And if I don't know something, I'll say so. Then I'll try to find the answer. (Jesse Ventura)
The media today are controlled by the big corporations. It's all about ratings and money. View quote
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I do have a problem with the people who think they have some right to try to impose their beliefs on others. View quote
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The way to stop abortion is to deal, philosophically and spiritually, with the people who get them. And that's not something government can touch. View quote
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Especially at these young ages, I call it brainwashing to make it mandatory to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. View quote
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We shouldn't be wasting so much time and so many resources on prosecuting consensual crimes such as prostitution and drug possession. I hold drug possession and drug dealing as two totally different concepts. The drug dealers who resort to deadly street violence should be dealt with severely as the criminals they are. View quote
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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. View quote
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I didn't need this job. I ran for governor to find out if the American dream still exists in anyone's heart other than mine. I'm living proof that the myths aren't true. The candidate with the most money isn't always the one who wins. View quote
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Our government has the weirdest bias against cannabis. View quote
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I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion. View quote
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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. (Jesse Ventura)
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us. View quote
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Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars. View quote
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If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project. View quote
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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? View quote
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