Jesse Ventura Quotes

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

We are the beast of state government.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.

Governments are sails, the people is the wind, the state is the boat, and time is the sea.

The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things.

All government is an ugly necessity.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

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

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

I believe in public services.

When government grows, it breaks the family.