Jesse Ventura Quotes

The midterms are a chance for people to vote out those they believe are failing to address the concerns of citizens.

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

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.

That a majority of people can vote against a government, and yet that government still remains in power does not raise confidence in our democracy.

A Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste.

Our government has become a system rather than a living expression of the popular will.

We are hiring too many people who are called politicians, and we are not holding them accountable…. You do not hire someone and not tell them what to do. Make a trip to Washington and see that they are doing what you want them to do.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

Whether we make it a condition or just through persuasion or just through popular support, whatever it takes, we really do need to shift through a system of voting where the way the Canadian public votes is the way the Canadian Parliament is formed after the election.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power