Jesse Ventura Quotes

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

I like to talk to media.

Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Actors should never give interviews.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

You can never get your message across if you're always answering their [reporter's] questions.

The press conference is as much a White House fixture as the cabinet meeting.