Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
James George Janos, better known by his stage name Jesse Ventura, is an American former professional wrestler, actor, political commentator, author, naval veteran, conspiracy theorist and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was the first and only member of the Reform Party to win a major government position, but later joined the Independence Party of Minnesota...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWrestler
Date of Birth15 July 1951
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Jesse Ventura quotes about
The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.
Certainly if he announces, if he will be a candidate, he will absolutely get my full consideration, ... I don't put the cart in front of the horse and until he becomes a candidate, he becomes the horse.
The national Reform Party did nothing -- zero -- to get me elected,
Opening their doors to our business practices, our culture, our democratic ideas will open their process.
The first part of it I thought was excellent. When Rick Kahn got up, I left the building halfway through what he was doing,
A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.
The people need to understand that marijuana is an unbelievable plant that has huge medical - it's a medical plant, is the best way to describe it. It has huge benefits for us as people in many, many - so many different ways.
You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.
I don't want protectionist feelings in Congress to stand in the way of progress for Minnesota,
gain their stranglehold control of the party again.
I don't want a Democrat in the board room and I don't want a Republican in the bedroom, ... Democrats can't do business ... and all Republicans want to do is get in your bedroom and tell you what you should do in the privacy of your own home.
In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.
People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.
If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.