The World According to Arnold Schwarzenegger

Memorable Quotes From Would-Be Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:

"It's the most difficult [decision] I've made in my entire life, except
the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax." -announcing
his gubernatorial candidacy on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno"

"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up
Sacramento." -on "The Tonight Show"

"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."

"We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A
fantastic job!"

"The public doesn't care about figures." -discussing his economic views

"Don't worry about that." -on the environment

"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 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."
-describing a scene in "Terminator 3"

"This is really embarrassing. I just forgot our state governor's name,
but I know that you will help me recall him." -speaking to a taxpayer
advocacy group

"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

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."

"Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a
day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day."

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."

"I have inhaled, exhaled everything."

"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

"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 f**k she can weigh 150
pounds, I don't care." -in a 1977 interview with Oui

"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."

"The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the
shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through
exercise, that's for sure."

"Nixon was always being attacked sexually. It was always said that he
was a fag and that he had no sexual relations with his wife for 15 years
and that was why he liked power. And Hitler had only one ball, and that
was why he wanted to conquer the world." -in a 1977 interview with Time
Out

"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

"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

"I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things
like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered
for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years
remembered." -in the 1977 film "Pumping Iron