Jesse Ventura Quotes

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

I would never want to trade a vote for a gavel.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such Selfishness, and Littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, altho We are engaged in the best Cause that ever employed the Human Heart, yet the Prospect of success is doubtfull not for Want of Power or of Wisdom, but of Virtue."

I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

It's hard to align with money if you think that it is evil and nasty. But once you come to an understanding that money is neutral, it's easy to see that having money does not necessarily deprive somebody else. There's no reason why you can't be very rich and still be an extremely spiritual and wonderfully generous person-aligned to the God Force-with a huge heart, and compassion for everyone you meet.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.

You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.