6 Jesse Ventura Quotes on Military

Jesse Ventura quotes on military

10. The current use of the National Guard is wrong... These are men who did not sign up to go occupy foreign nations.

26. I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

35. A Navy SEAL will defy death at least twice a week. When you get that kind of familiarity with death, barriers go down, and anything else seems insignificant. I don't like what happened in the navy's Tailhook scandal; I think what those officers did was wrong. But I understand why it happened. When you get a force of that many hundreds of warriors together, there's bound to be trouble.

36. War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.

38. To this day, I'm against the draft. I believe the military is much stronger if it's an all-volunteer organization.

60. Why did they label me a college dropout? The connotation is, he left to go have fun. Not that I served honorably in the Navy, went to college on the GI Bill, trained to be a pro wrestler, and took a job when the opportunity came up. Isn't that what college is for, to prepare you to earn a living? The positive is, I still have three years of eligibility left - if Harvard wants me for its football team.