"I Ain’t Got Time To Bleed" by Jesse Ventura

• If you own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you’re doing with it.
• Nothing pushes prices down and quality up like competition.
• Sometimes you need to defy death so that you can appreciate life more.
• By having an opinion, you make yourself a target.
• Government should do its job as invisibly as possible.
• Term limits are the most effective means of keeping career politicians out of the system.
• Instead of being taxed for making money, individuals should be taxed only when they make a purchase.
• Because tax collections will not increase when times are bad, it would force the government to live within its means.
• We don’t value the things that are handed to us the way we value something we’ve put a lot of sweat and sacrifice into.
• Why do we let criminals out early for good behavior? Shouldn’t criminals be expected to behave in prison? I think they should set it up so that if your sentence is three years and you misbehave, you’ll do five!
• It shouldn’t be more comfortable to be in prison than it is to be out.
• I also think the government has no business telling us what we can and can’t use for pain relief and in matters of our own health.
• The ban on medical marijuana exists for no other reason than the government’s bias.
• As long as there’s a demand for it, we’re not going to be able to eliminate the supply.
• If you’re going to own a gun, you have an obligation, to know what you’re doing with it.
• The government is not a charity institution.
• Welfare is taking money from someone who is working to give to someone who’s not.
• Public education is for the common good.
• There is honor in all honest work.
• The Constitution guarantees you only a very few rights. You have the right to live free, go out, and compete. You have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• Nothing pushes prices down and quality up like competition.
• The only way to get rid of fear is to look it in the face and conquer it.
• When you’re dealing with death face-to-face, there are no rules.
• Sometimes, you need to defy death so that you can appreciate life more.
• The only way the system will ever change is if enough well meaning private-sector people get involved in their local government for the right reasons and are able to resist getting absorbed into the political food chain.
• Whenever you take a stand on an issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it. By having an opinion, you make yourself a target.
• You have to find your weaknesses and solidify them.
• I think your physical bearing plays a large part in leadership. You have to carry yourself with dignity and power.
• Government should, ideally, do its job as invisibly as possible.
• A democratic government’s only role is to help keep the playing field level for its citizens and to do for people what they truly cannot do for themselves.
• If someone is providing for you, then they’re also making decisions for you.
• Nothing we’re paying people in public office to do should be going on behind closed doors.
• Americans need fresh ideas and constant turnover, otherwise the machine becomes a monster.
• Our government will never truly be a government by, of, and for the people if people are too apathetic to do their parts.