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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
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When I ran for governor, I told all the bikers, You don't need to worry about me bringing in a helmet law. It's your option because you as a motorcycle rider that's your option. It doesn't come with the bike.
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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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I don't have the patience to sit and write.
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They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
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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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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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I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
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I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
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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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