 In his 1999 autobiography "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed", Ventura suggested that he did not plan to run for president of the United States but did not rule it out.In 2003, he expressed interest in running for president while accepting an award from the International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Newton, Iowa.He spoke at Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic", organized by the Campaign for Liberty, on September 2, 2008, and implied a possible future run for president.