Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
James George Janos, better known by his stage name Jesse Ventura, is an American former professional wrestler, actor, political commentator, author, naval veteran, conspiracy theorist and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was the first and only member of the Reform Party to win a major government position, but later joined the Independence Party of Minnesota...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWrestler
Date of Birth15 July 1951
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.
Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.
I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
The people need to understand that marijuana is an unbelievable plant that has huge medical - it's a medical plant, is the best way to describe it. It has huge benefits for us as people in many, many - so many different ways.
Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.
You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.
Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.
'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.