Jesse Ventura: I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed tha...

I love my country, not my government.

Jesse Ventura

patriotic government country

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

Jesse Ventura

nascar-racing law wish

Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.

Jesse Ventura

horse heart thinking

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?

Jesse Ventura

government winning thinking

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Jesse Ventura

fear numbers people

Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.

Jesse Ventura

cancer wise summer

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

Jesse Ventura

strong military people

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Jesse Ventura

arms citizens sides

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

Jesse Ventura

libertarian vote liberty

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

Jesse Ventura

drinking doe water

Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them.

Jesse Ventura

save-a-life loud believe

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

Jesse Ventura

differences government color

If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

Jesse Ventura

today jesus thinking

If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.

Jesse Ventura

lucky-to-be-alive usa ifs

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

Jesse Ventura

hero liars lying

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

Jesse Ventura

hunters feelings needs

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

Jesse Ventura

republican political party

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

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flags citizens house

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

Jesse Ventura

personality truth lying

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

human-nature communism figures

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.