Jesse Ventura

“I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.”

“I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.”

“You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.”

“I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?”

“There's nothing glamorous about war at all.”

“I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.”

“I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.”

“Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.”

“I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at gove...”

“I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.”

“The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.”

“Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.”

“I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but a...”

“I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.”

“Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.”

“I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.”

“If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.”

“For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.”

“You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.”

“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.”