{"author":"Jesse Ventura","author_id":"Jesse+Ventura","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["business","religion","people "],"id":25669,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or 'enhanced interrogation techniques' as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["hypocrisy","torture","waterboarding"],"id":47207,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["water","job","government "],"id":65107,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["heart","parents","you "],"id":102072,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["government","believe","me "],"id":118645,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["good","believe","fire "],"id":120353,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["government","think","i think "],"id":141650,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include 'None of the above'. People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["government","voting"],"id":148403,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["doomed-to-repeat-it","history","learning"],"id":148936,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"},{"text":"I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.","author":"Jesse Ventura","tags":["responsibility","want","think "],"id":154136,"author_id":"Jesse+Ventura"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}