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Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

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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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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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You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.
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I want to try to become friends with Russia.
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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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I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.
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There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
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People don't like politicians.
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Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?
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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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Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
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The media doesn't educate anyone.
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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
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Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.
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How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?
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The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.
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I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
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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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