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Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

Jesse Ventura

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Jesse Ventura
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 15
Film Actor
Peace Activist
Politician
Professional Wrestler
Radio Personality
Sports Commentator
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Jesse The Body Ventura
James George Janos
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The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.
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Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
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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.
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
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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.
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The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.
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'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People don't like politicians.
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I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.
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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.'
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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.
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I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
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Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.
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Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
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I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.
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If I wanna be president, I probably can.
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