Jesse Ventura Quotes

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

The legitimate acts of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

People have increasingly come to regard the government as a source of rights rather than as a defender of pre-existing individual rights.

Government is not guaranteed to work right.

Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force. It demands compromise.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

The American people believe that we ought to control our government. On the other hand, we've seen government more and more controlling us

My fundamental axiom of government is never to trust the lamb to the wolf.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

The government is just the people acting together.

If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Whoever desires to found a nation and give it laws must begin by assuming that all men are bad and always ready to display their evil nature.

But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external controls nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience