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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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Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
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Al Gore in 2000. He got a half a million more votes than George Bush and lost. How can that be? It's ridiculous. It's an elitist system. It's so they pick your President. You don't - the people - and it needs to be abolished.
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I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
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If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.
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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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Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
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