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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.
Jesse Ventura
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Jesse Ventura
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 15
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James George Janos
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Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.
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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.
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That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.
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You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
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When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.
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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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Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.
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I don't have the patience to sit and write.
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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.
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