Jesse Ventura Quotes

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

I don't even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it's between institutionalists and reformers.

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.

'The New York Times' breathlessly writes about the left-of-center Americans Elect being a 'new third party,' but we already have a third party: the Libertarian Party.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

It is kind of a problem in America that so many Americans believe if they elect a different president, everything is going to be fine.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.