Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.”

“As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, bu...”

“The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests a...”

“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”

“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”

“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...”

“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your drea...”

“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.”

“When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to an...”

“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.”

“People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is...”

“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...”

“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lif...”

“I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.”

“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.”

“One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.”

“Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.”

“I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.”

“Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.”

“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...”