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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.

Jesse Ventura

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Jesse Ventura
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 15
Film Actor
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Minneapolis
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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 don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
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If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.
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Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.
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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.
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Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
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When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.
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You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.
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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.
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Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
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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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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 kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.
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