Jesse Ventura

should hang their head in shame.

We don't have to approve of (China's) human rights record to help improve them,

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

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.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't Go stick your head in the mud.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

The first part of it I thought was excellent. When Rick Kahn got up, I left the building halfway through what he was doing,

I Ain't Got Time to Bleed.

go by projections because if I believed in projections, I wouldn't be the governor of Minnesota today, because nobody projected me to win.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

We've shocked the world, ... Hopefully the Republicans and Democrats will take notice now. They will stop their partisan party politics and start doing what's right for the people.

Going on projections, I think, is a very dangerous thing to do, because if the economy were to switch or change, those projections become meaningless, ... Face The Nation.

You can't legislate morality.

We're both very well aware that it's naturally going to be those middle voters who will determine the presidential election, ... I mean, the vice president's a bright man. He understands that. Naturally, he has to focus on the independent voter. The independent voter determines who wins. I'm more pleased about the fact that we're both wearing jeans today, so my press won't criticize me.

I don't want to make promises I can't keep.