Arnold Schwarzenegger California Quotations

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

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 and we have to stop that.

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.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

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.

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

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.

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.

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.

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

Of course, I'm bloodied, yes. But unbowed, ... I made a promise to California that I will fix a broken system. And I will do everything I can, and it makes no difference how many attacks they have on me, because remember one thing: that this, what we are doing here, is much bigger than me.

Obesity-related health problems cost us $28 billion a year, ... We are going to terminate obesity in California once and for all.

I feel most comfortable with the way it is right now, ... Eventually, in a few years from now, you can re-address it again and see what the people of California think. You cannot force-feed those kind of things.

There is no better place to be a woman with hopes and dreams than California. The jobs are better paying and more fulfilling and California is a much better place because of that.

Today California has given me the greatest gift of all: You've given me your trust by voting for me,

Just last week I traveled with both of them to Washington to meet with the leaders in Congress, and we reminded them that California is at the tip of the spear of our nation's military capability, that we do it all.

While it is clear that more needs to be done to reduce illegal crossing, the situation in California has improved significantly in the last few years and illustrates that significant progress is attainable if we join together in a dedicated effort,

We all know that California right now is going in the wrong direction. We all know that businesses are leaving, and with them, the jobs are leaving.

Everything I have is because of California. I came here with absolutely nothing, and California has given me absolutely everything,

Equally important is the fact that increasing California exports and bringing Chinese investment into California translates into more jobs for Californians.

A declaration of emergency is not authorized in the absence of conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons or property beyond the means of local government to address, ... Despite the dangers which exist to those who seek to cross the border illegally ... the current situation in California doesn't rise to that level.

As California is home to more legal immigrants than any other state in the country, we would shoulder a disproportionate share of this federal funding reduction,

I recognize that we also need more bipartisan cooperation to make it all happen, ... And I promise I will deliver that, because Californians believe that the state is on the wrong track. Californians believe that we need reform, we need change. But the people of California are sick and tired of all the fighting, and they are sick and tired of all those negative TV ads.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... We have to put California on the path to good health.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... Today we are taking some first steps in creating a healthy future for California.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the problem.

I am proud California is a leader in recognizing and respecting domestic partnerships and the equal rights of domestic partners, ... I support current domestic partnership rights and will continue to vigorously defend and enforce these rights and as such will not support any rollback.

This historic election has come about because there's a tremendous disconnect between the people of California and the leaders of California. We the people are doing our job -- working hard, raising our families and paying taxes. But the politicians are not doing their job.