Jesse Ventura Quotes

I am not a communist. I do not agree with communism.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

I am very distrustful of collectivist ideologies of any kind

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them