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Schwarzenegger QuotesQuotes on this page are mostly unverified, but are generally commonplace around the net and believed to be accurate. Unless otherwise indicated, they are believed to represent Arnold's own words. Integrity"I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone." "I think that I don't remember the details. I just know that the '70s were outrageous kind of a decade, that we promoted bodybuilding, that we said outrageous things in order to get the attention and all that stuff, and I have the utmost respect for women and I have not meant to hurt anybody or anything like this. I don't even know what it says. I've not read the article." [on the 1977 Oui interview] "You have to do everything possible to win no matter what." According to the online, "In the film Arnold Schwarzenegger states that he missed his father's funeral so that he could continue training uninterrupted. For the re-release (2002) of the film Schwarzenegger said that that statement was untrue, and was made in order to help sell the film." Ref: Schwarzenegger for enlightened despot? "We want to believe in this guy ... [but] he does have this one kind of annoying habit of trying to appease everybody, and I don't know if he can get away with that" - Steve Moore, President, Club for Growth. Non-Partisan Unifier"As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people." "I am trained to get along with Democrats" "[I will be] going to Sacramento as an independent." "I am all the way with him and always will be supportive of him." [on President Bush] "We want to create, again, a positive business environment here and make people happy." "I want to be a governor that is for the people, for everyone, no matter what your age is, your political (affiliation)" "You have to unite people. There are bright people in Sacramento, we need to reunite the parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, not to divide them. Let them both make decisions, and really work to a positive end rather than always fighting." "A governor has to bring people together. A governor has to have vision, the governor has to go after that vision and those goals, and then solve the problems." I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old. "That was another thing I will never forgive the Republican Party for. I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period." -on the Clinton impeachment "We want to believe in this guy ... [but] he does have this one kind of annoying habit of trying to appease everybody, and I don't know if he can get away with that" - Steve Moore, President, Club for Growth. Public Image and Flatteries"I know how to sell something. I had to sell bodybuilding when nobody knew what bodybuilding was in this country -- and we did it. And I had to sell myself as an action hero, which wasn't easy when everyone said, 'Hey, your name is Schwartzenstein' or something like that. And you have an accent. You have this overdeveloped body. No one could ever be successful with this kind of a combination. And I did it, because I sold myself to the American people and the people around the world. And the same is here. It's up to me to sell to the people and to convince the people that I can do the job.''
"The public doesn't care about figures" [asked if he would
provide details on budget cuts]
And you know something, because everything that I've gotten -- my career, my money, my family -- everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California." "The special interests are financing the campaigns of Bustamante and of Davis. I mean, those are the twin Terminators of Sacramento." "This is really embarrassing. I just forgot our state governor's name, but I know that you will help me *recall* him." [laughs] "We want to create, again, a positive business environment here and make people happy." "I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country." "I walked down the aisle as Conan the Barbarian and walked back up again as Arnold the Meek." "I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was." "I promise you, I promise you that if I get elected to be governor of this great state I will continue on my crusade for this state and across the country to make sure that ... after-school programs will be made available in every public school in the whole United States." "I will be governor for the people for a change because, because I want to represent the people because the only thing that counts for me is the people." "I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento." "In bodybuilding, I trained five hours a day. I made sure that no stone was unturned. I did not want to go competition and then maybe lose, and say, 'You know, I could have taken care of my diet, I should have had less calorie intake. The same is here -- I want to go from morning to night, work every day, seven days a week." "I want to be a governor that is for the people, for everyone, no matter what your age is, your political (affiliation)" "You have to unite people. There are bright people in Sacramento, we need to reunite the parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, not to divide them. Let them both make decisions, and really work to a positive end rather than always fighting." "A governor has to bring people together. A governor has to have vision, the governor has to go after that vision and those goals, and then solve the problems." [after Sylvester Stallone invited him to join an all-male club] "I told him it was the worst thing he could do. That we're living in a very sensitive time period, when women were struggling for equality. I said I didn't agree with half the stuff they were talking about, but a club like that would offend every smart woman in the country." "I only play a machine but I'm really a human being." If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget. "Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc." James Cameron, 1997 "I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old." "You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect." Arnold Schwarzenegger about filming, 1990 You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play. 23 September 2003 - The Drudge Report claims that Arnold campaign is "scrambling to contain full nude erotic photographs taken by controversialist Robert Mapplethorpe". According to Drudge "sources", the photos are held by the Mapplethorpe estate, and Arnold was one of his "favorite subjects". "Women appreciate Conan's vulnerability. He's an innocent, in a way. He doesn't win every time." Arnold Schwarzenegger "Some of his comments were way, way out, but the public wanted to be shocked, and that's what Arnold has always been able to do. That draws attention to you, and if you're original, you tend to stand out in the crowd." Arnold's idol Reg Park, 1998 "No matter how good or evil, there is always a part of you in the character." Arnold Schwarzenegger, talking about Mr. Freeze "We want to believe in this guy ... [but] he does have this one kind of annoying habit of trying to appease everybody, and I don't know if he can get away with that" - Steve Moore, President, Club for Growth. Megalomaniacal"I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me." “I feel you only can have a few leaders, and then the rest is followers. I feel that I am the born leader and that I’ve always impressed with being the leader. I hate to be the follower. I had this when I was a little boy…” - June 1976 Rolling Stone Magazine interview “Around the time of grammar school, I had this incredible desire to be recognized… I got the feeling I was meant to be more than just an average guy running around, that I was chosen to do something special.” - June 1976 Rolling Stone Magazine interview “At that point, I didn’t think about money. I thought about the fame, about just being the greatest. I was dreaming about being some dictator of a country or some savior like Jesus . . .” - June 1976 Rolling Stone Magazine interview "I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will." Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, 1979 "In many ways I admired people — It depends for what. I admired Hitler for instance because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it. It is very hard to say who I admired and who are my heroes. And I admired basically people who are powerful people, like Kennedy. Who people listen to and just wait until he comes out with telling them what to do. People like that I admire a lot. "...We can't live without authority. Because I feel that a certain amount of people who were meant to do this and control, and a large amount, like 95 percent of the people who we have to tell what to do and how to keep order. That is why I am all for it. "...Yes, in Germany they used power and authority but it was used in the wrong way...I feel if you want to create a strong nation and a strong country you cannot let everybody be an individual, because everybody has his own opinions and you can't just stick together as a strong nation. Then you have to tell people what to do and you can't just let them float away. In Germany there was a lot of unity. The German soldiers were the best, and with the police force and everything...It was misused on the power. First, it started having, I mean, getting Germany out of the great recession and having everybody jobs and so on and then it was just misused. And they said, let's take this country, and let's wipe out this country, and let's wipe out whole Europe, and let's get America, and so on. That's bad. "For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. " "The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that." "I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years or like Jesus for thousands of years." (from "Pumping Iron") "If the special interests try to push me around I will push back." "Everyone in Sacramento will have more details than I have, but I know exactly what needs to be done." 4 October 2003 - ABC News reports a star struck young Arnold's comments on Hitler: "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it. [he wants to experience being].. like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium and have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say." "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need
somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need
to be told what to do and how to behave." –in a 1990 interview with U.S. News "It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself, 'I can be there.'" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1979 "When I was in Stay Hungry years ago, I said to myself, 'There is Clint Eastwood up there and Charles Bronson and Warren Beatty, so why not me too? It seems pretty empty up there, so what the hell? There is room for one more. I can squeeze in there'." Arnold Schwarzenegger So that's what Arnold Schwarzenegger admired about Adolf Hitler (NY Times, reg req'd):
But the print edition of the New York Times this morning includes several paragraphs I can't find on-line, including these passages from the transcripts of the "Pumping Iron" interviews released by the Schwarzenegger campaign:
Well that clear everything up! We might even have Schwarzenegger's economic plan in its germinal form. Schwarzenegger is running for Strong Man, not governor of a democratic republic. Copyright © 2003 by Christopher L. Walton | Posted @ 9:34 AM Unrelenting Ambitions
"And this is a process that was a very long and very difficult process, because you have to put all of those things on a scale. You have to put on a scale, you know, that you're stopping with the movie career, you're stopping some of the business relationships that make you a lot of money." "My mother called me on the phone and she said, you know, "Your dad died." And this was exactly two months before a contest. She said, "Are you coming home to the funeral?" I said, "No, it's too late. You know, he's dead, there's nothing to be done. And I'm sorry and I can't come, you know?" (from "Pumping Iron") "Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list -- except as tools for my sexual needs." "You have to do everything possible to win no matter what." "My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession." "Start wide, expand further, and never look back." "I sometimes do feel frustrated that I have more energy in me than I can get rid of...so much energy." Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1993 "I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country." "When I was in Stay Hungry years ago, I said to myself, 'There is Clint Eastwood up there and Charles Bronson and Warren Beatty, so why not me too? It seems pretty empty up there, so what the hell? There is room for one more. I can squeeze in there'." Arnold Schwarzenegger You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect. 4 October 2003 - ABC News reports a star struck young Arnold's comments on Hitler: "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it. [he wants to experience being].. like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium and have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say." "If Schwarzenegger had more ambition than he has now, he'd have to be running for Galactic Overlord." - Steve Sailer, UPI reporter, movie critic for The American Conservative, columnist for VDARE.com Religion and Spirituality"I’m a religious Republican, too. I’m a Catholic. I go to church every Sunday. But it doesn’t mean that I’m against progress. We have to move forward with the stem cell research. This is the future of solving some of the serious problems that are existing in a medical area. And why not?" - Arnold Schwarzenegger in CBS 60 Minutes interview 10/31/2004. "You have to do everything possible to win no matter what." "Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter." "Start wide, expand further, and never look back." "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." "We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer." "The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." "The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character." "Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. " The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. "The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character." Arnold Schwarzenegger, March 1997 Racism"I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico." "It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me." 3 September 2003 - The Drudge Report reveals details of an ABC NEWS interview with former Mr. Universe Rick Wayne in which he describes controversial comments allegedly made by Arnold. Wayne, who is black, told ABC NEWS that Arnold made comments such as this regarding South Africa's former Apartheid system: "If you gave these blacks a country to run, they would run it down the tubes." Proud & Boastful"As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people." "But no one that has been around me would believe that a woman would be complaining about me holding her." "I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me." "I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will." "I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot." "The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that." "I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was." "I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country." Arnold Schwarzenegger about his future career, March 1996 "My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession." Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I
was just as happy when I had $48 million. My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it. My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period. I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone
walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me. "I am here to spend. I love to spend Hollywood's money!" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1993 "I am very fortunate to have some cameramen say of me, 'Arnold, you were born for the camera to love you'." Arnold Schwarzenegger "People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1993 Morally Bankrupt Hedonist"Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list -- except as tools for my sexual needs." "You have to do everything possible to win no matter what." "After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass." "Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's--the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train--there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together." [on why he was speaking at an event] "Since I had nothing better to do. I can't get any jobs and my wife is too pregnant to fool around with" "If I see a girl with big tits, I'm going to stare and stare. And I'm going to think in my mind what I am going to do with her if I would have her." "Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff." "It was a handful. I never know if my wife’s watching. I’ll tell her it was a stuntman." [after touching British TV host's breast on air] "The women should have the choice. The women should decide what they want to do with their bodies. I'm all for that." [on abortion] "Your daughter has a great butt" [to Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Arnold's future mother-in-law, shortly after meeting Maria] "As much as when you see a blonde with great tits and a great ass, you say to yourself, 'Hey, she must be stupid or must have nothing else to offer', which maybe is the case many times. But then again there is the one that is as smart as her breasts look, great as her face looks, beautiful as her whole body looks gorgeous, you know, so people are shocked." "It is as satisfying to me as coming is - you know, as having sex with a woman and coming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am, like, getting the feeling of coming in the gym. I'm getting the feeling of coming at home. I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up. When I pose out in front of 5.000 people I get the same feeling. So I'm coming day and night." Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about bodybuilding and sex Pumping Iron 1975 "Bodybuilder's cocks are the same size as everyone else's. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure." "I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good fuck, she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care." "[men] shouldn't feel like fags just because they want to have nice-looking bodies." "Pumping iron is a great feeling...like coming, but coming continuously." "The two together -- the connection -- that's where it's at, whether you're doing a bench press, a business deal, or just fucking." I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem? 6 October 2003 - Arnold's newest explanation/denial/admission/apology/statement/vague sound byte/? of mistreating women: "It doesn't make any sense to go through details here with you," he said. "What is important is that I cannot remember what was happening 20 years ago and 15 years ago. But some of the things sound like me." 2 October 2003 - Arnold responds to LA Times piece which interviewed six women who said the actor made unwelcome advances - which included groping of their buttocks and breasts - to them in six separate incidents dating from the 1970s to as recently as 2000: "A lot of what you see in the stories is not true. At the same time, I have to tell you what I always have to say: wherever there is smoke, there is fire. That's true." - "What I want to say to you is that, yes, I have behaved badly sometimes. Yes it is true that I was on rowdy movie sets and I have done things that were not right that I thought were playful." 23 September 2003 - The Drudge Report claims that Arnold campaign is "scrambling to contain full nude erotic photographs taken by controversialist Robert Mapplethorpe". According to Drudge "sources", the photos are held by the Mapplethorpe estate, and Arnold was one of his "favorite subjects". "As much as when you see a blonde with great tits and a great ass, you say to
yourself, 'Hey, she must be stupid or must have nothing else to offer,' which
maybe is the case many times. But then again there is the one that is as smart
as her breasts look, great as her face looks, beautiful as her whole body looks
gorgeous, you know, so people are shocked." –in an interview with Esquire "I am here to spend. I love to spend Hollywood's money!" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1993 Unrepentant"I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot." On Past Indiscretions - "Nothing will haunt me" "I have inhaled, exhaled everything." ; "Yes, grass and hash--no hard drugs. But the point is that I do what I feel like doing. I'm not on a health kick." "I never lived my life to be a politician. I never lived my life to be the governor of California." "Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was." "I was always outrageous, otherwise I wouldn't have done the things that I did in my career, with the bodybuilding and the show business and all those things. I was always out there." "I think that I don't remember the details. I just know that the '70s were outrageous kind of a decade, that we promoted bodybuilding, that we said outrageous things in order to get the attention and all that stuff, and I have the utmost respect for women and I have not meant to hurt anybody or anything like this. I don't even know what it says. I've not read the article." [on the 1977 Oui interview] 6 October 2003 - Arnold's newest explanation/denial/admission/apology/statement/vague sound byte/? of mistreating women: "It doesn't make any sense to go through details here with you," he said. "What is important is that I cannot remember what was happening 20 years ago and 15 years ago. But some of the things sound like me." 2 October 2003 - Arnold responds to LA Times piece which interviewed six women who said the actor made unwelcome advances - which included groping of their buttocks and breasts - to them in six separate incidents dating from the 1970s to as recently as 2000: "A lot of what you see in the stories is not true. At the same time, I have to tell you what I always have to say: wherever there is smoke, there is fire. That's true." - "What I want to say to you is that, yes, I have behaved badly sometimes. Yes it is true that I was on rowdy movie sets and I have done things that were not right that I thought were playful." "My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt." –on his friend and fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal Misspoken English?"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman." "As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people." Socio-Political Views"I don't run around every day with a gun in my hand. So I want kids to understand the difference; one is make believe, like we do in the movies. But in reality, I'm for gun control. I'm a peace-loving guy." "I -- I will have to get into that. I mean, because, as you know, I'm very much for families, I'm very much for children and children's issues and all that stuff. I think that the children should have the first call in our treasury. This is the -- the most precious resource that we have. We have to think about the future of the state. Children are the most important thing, and we have to help the families." [response to whether he would repeal the family leave act] "The women should have the choice. The women should decide what they want to do with their bodies. I'm all for that." [on abortion] "From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed.... This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax." "I promise you, I promise you that if I get elected to be governor of this great state I will continue on my crusade for this state and across the country to make sure that ... after-school programs will be made available in every public school in the whole United States." "I supported the war on Iraq, and as a matter of fact I was over there visiting the troops in Iraq and in Kuwait, they are very brave soldiers and they are risking their lives for this country, so that you and I have the freedom, so we can enjoy and do business here, and so we can become rich or so the people who live here have the right to be protected, I believe in all that, yes." We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need. Taste for Violence[discussing a scene in T3, in which he pushes the female cyborg's face into a toilet bowl] "I saw this toilet bowl. How many times do you get away with this -- to take a woman, grab her upside down, and bury her face in a toilet bowl? I wanted to have something floating there ... The thing is, you can do it, because in the end, I didn't do it to a woman -- she's a machine! We could get away with it without being crucified by who-knows-what group." "I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun." Among Conan the Barbarian's greatest joys: “crush[ing] your enemies . . . and hear[ing] the lamentations of the women” [Conan the Barbarian, Universal Pictures (Universal City, Calif.)] Source: Harper's Magazine Index for Jan 2000 Comments of Others"The most perfectly developed man in the history of the world." - Guiness Book of World Records; Source: Bodybuilders.com - Arnold Schwarzenegger @ http://www.bodybuilders.com/arnold.htm (02/09/2005) "He's in the John Wayne, Ronald Reagan tradition of people you can believe in." - Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House of Representatives. "I don't know that I would put him in the category of the antichrist; believe it or not he's a pretty strict Catholic. However, I don't doubt that there are similarities" - Intimate acquaintance of Arnold's (personal email) "Change is going to require someone determined, who is credible to the investment world, to present a plan for a balanced budget. After looking at the situation, I thought new leadership could get that job done and take care of those 35 million people, and that's why I am out here with Arnold Schwarzenegger." "I have known Arnold for years and know he'll be a great governor. It is critical to the rest of the nation that California's economic crisis be solved, and I think Arnold will get that job done." - Warren Buffett, Economic Adviser “If you think Arnold can be stopped by a few phrases on a piece of parchment, well, you just don’t know Arnold.” - George Butler, Producer/Director, "Pumping Iron" "Absolutely, I endorse Arnold Schwarzenegger. I've known him for 20 years. He's going to be a breath of fresh air to the people of California, just like Ronald Reagan was. He's going to be a phenomena in this state." - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) "This is a man of bottomless ambition. It's always been there. Nothing's happened in the last few days that hasn't happened before. He sees himself as almost mystically sent to America." George Butler, Producer/Director, "Pumping Iron." "He's like the golem. All these Jewish Democratic studio people created this Terminator which has conquered the world for them, just like the golem, created by Jews in Prague in the Middle Ages. The golem was bigger and stronger than normal mortals. And once they woke him up, he controlled those who created him. He has a life of his own, he's uncontrollable, and he's the Republican candidate. Now all these left-wing liberals are biting their lips and saying: What did we create?" - Ludi Boeken, movie producer. "Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a conservative -- period ... That does not mean that he is not worthy ... There are some practical realities you have to consider. What we have to deal with here is what we can get." --- Rush Limbaugh, talk radio host. "I'd have a hard time voting for him ... [most conservatives are] either
bemused by the Schwarzenegger candidacy, or increasingly dismayed by the public
positions he is taking." -- David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union. |