Jesse Ventura Quotes

The Democrats are the party of war.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I am voting for this war so as not to be disloyal to President Bush.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

Every US President has to have a war.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

We will not allow other countries to use our soil as a battleground.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

… a visceral fear of appeasement has led to entirely avoidable disasters

Mr. President, If you don’t do something and do it right away, I don’t know what is going to happen to this country.

Advocating war is easier when you and your family are not endangered by it.

I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

I voted to send people to war.

They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.