[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.
If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.
Want a hot dog, McMahon?
The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.
Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.
In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.
The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.
Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.
Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them.
My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
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.
You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.
Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.
How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.
A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
You can't legislate morality.
When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.
When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
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.
Liberty is security. Freedom is security.
They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.
The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.
A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
Love is bigger than government.
Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.
If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
If you buy the flag it's yours to burn.
Al Gore in 2000. He got a half a million more votes than George Bush and lost. How can that be? It's ridiculous. It's an elitist system. It's so they pick your President. You don't - the people - and it needs to be abolished.
People don't like politicians.
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.
A bag of quality marijuana in Minnesota will cost you 400 bucks, in Colorado it'll cost you 100 and a quarter. Medical Marijuana, a pill that you've got to pay for - which, it's allowed in Minnesota, but it's so restricted - costs $600 a month. If you live in Colorado you can get the same medical marijuana for $30 a month. See why it needs to be legalized across the board?
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
The pleasure was all yours.
I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport ,the metal detector goes off.
I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.
Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he didn't want hemp to be used for paper, he wanted to force everyone to buy his trees. And that's why he was the one that spearheaded making it illegal in Washington. Always follow the money, it's done for money purposes.
People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.
I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.
Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.
If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you would see an end to a lot of the shooting violence that's going on when people are being pulled over for traffic stops and then suddenly executed right in the street.
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.
Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
...the priority of the Democrats and Republicans...is to preserve...power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority...is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise.
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
One out of four people internationally believe if their country goes to war, The United States would be the opponent. As a veteran, I hang my head in shame over that.
We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.
I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
You can't legislate stupidity.
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.
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.
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.
If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.
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.
For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet.
If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.
I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.
Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.
A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.
Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.
I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.
Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.
Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.
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.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.
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.
When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
I love my country, not my government.
If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?
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?
I ain't got time to bleed.
There's nothing glamorous about war at all.
