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Jesse Ventura [1952-0] American

Rank: 101
Politician, Professional wrestler

James George Janos, better known by his stage name Jesse Ventura, is an American former professional wrestler, actor, political commentator, author, naval veteran, and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.

Government, Patriotism, Knowledge, Religion, Strength, Attitude, Business, Car, Courage, Dad, Death, Education, Freedom, Health, Humor, Mom, Respect, Sports, Technology, Trust, Truth, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
Wrestling is ballet with violence.	Sports	101
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.	Government	102
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.	Business, Religion, Strength	103
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.	Patriotism	104
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.		105
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.		106
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.	Government	107
Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.		108
I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.		109
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.		110
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.	Death	111
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.	Education, Technology	112
Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.		113
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.		114
I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.	Government	115
In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.		116
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.	Humor	117
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.	Freedom, Religion, Truth	118
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.		119
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?	Health	120
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.'	War	121
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.	Government	122
Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.	Government	123
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.		124
I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.		125
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.	Government	126
You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.		201
If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.		202
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.		203
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.		204
A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.	Car	205
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.	Knowledge, Patriotism	206
You can't legislate morality.		207
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.	Respect	208
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.		209
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.	Knowledge, Patriotism	210
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.		211
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.		212
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.		213
You can't legislate against stupidity.		214
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.		215
The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.		216
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.'		217
I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.		218
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.		219
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.		220
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.		221
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.		222
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.		223
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.		224
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.		225
I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.		226
I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'		301
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.		302
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.		303
Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.	Dad, Mom	304
Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.		305
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.		306
A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.		307
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.		308
Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.		309
Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.	Trust	310
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.		311
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.		312
If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.		313
I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.		314
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.	Patriotism	315
Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.		316
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.		317
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.	Strength	318
If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?		319
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.		320
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.		321
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.		322
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.		323
If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.		324
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.		325
Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.		326
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.	Patriotism	401
Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.		402
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.		403
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.		404
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.		405
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.		406
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.		407
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.		408
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.		409
We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.		410
I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.		411
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.		412
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.		413
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.		414
The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'	Courage	415
I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.		416
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.		417
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.		418
I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.		419
Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.		420
Sarah Palin's a quitter.		421
I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.		422
If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.		423
I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.		424
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.		425
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.		426
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.		501
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.		502
My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.	Patriotism	503
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.		504
Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.		505
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.		506
In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.		507
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.		508
Liberty is security. Freedom is security.		509
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.		510
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.		511
I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.		512
The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.		513
There's nothing glamorous about war at all.		514
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.	Attitude	515
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?		516
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.		517
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.		518
I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.		519
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.		520
When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.		521
I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!		522
People don't like politicians.		523
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.		524
I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.		525
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.		526
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.		601
If I wanna be president, I probably can.		602
Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.		603
Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.		604
I'm an equal opportunity despiser.		605
'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.		606
My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.		607
Love is bigger than government.		608
I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.		609
I speak my mind. That's who I am.		610
'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.		611
Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.		612
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.		613
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.		614
I'm an Angus King independent.		615
Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?		616
Government is connected to everything we do.		617
You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.		618
Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.		619
I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.		620
I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?		621
Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.		622
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.		623
I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.		624
When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.		625
I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.		626
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.		701
When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.		702
In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.		703
I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.		704
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.		705

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