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Arnold Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected during a recall election and focused on various issues, including environmental policies and education reform. Schwarzenegger is known for his efforts to promote renewable energy and combat climate change, famously stating that California would lead the nation in these initiatives. He also emphasized the importance of after-school programs for children during his tenure.
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August 16, 2025
I'm getting ready for the gerrymandering battle.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am…
There is some people that are extreme. But there's no reason to villainize anybody.
I think it's always been vulnerable. I mean, don't forget that when I came over to America in the '60s, there was – President Kennedy was assassinated, Robert Kennedy was assassinated, Martin Luther King was assassinated. There was…
I would love to run for president. I would love to have the opportunity to do that and to show America that we can come together, and to do the kind of things that Ronald Reagan did.
You know, I think that I have the ability of bringing people together. I have the ability of talking about issues without villainizing the other side because there's people that think differently than I do, but they're not evil. They're…
I mean, let's just go and get along and love is more powerful than hate.
I think one of the things in acting that you learn is how to sell, how to promote things. And because you go always on those promotion tours and you try to sell tickets for your movies and all those things. So I think it is the same thing…
This is not the war to defend Russia that your grandfather or great grandfathers fought. This is an illegal war. Your lives, your limbs, your futures have been sacrificed for senseless war condemned by the entire world.
This is not the war to defend Russia that the grandfather, that your great grandfather has fought. This is an illegal war.
I urge the Russian people and the Russian soldiers in Ukraine to understand the propaganda and the disinformation that you`re being told.
To President Putin, I say you started this war. You`re leading this war. You can stop this war.
To the Russian soldiers, listening to this broadcast, you already know much of the truth that I've been speaking. You've seen it with your own eyes. I don't want you to be broken, like my father.
Denazify Ukraine? This is not true. Ukraine did not start this war. Neither did nationalists or Nazis. Those in power in the Kremlin started this war.
To President Putin, I say you started this war. You are leading this war. You can stop this war.
He's failing them terribly. And this is why he needs to be recalled. And this is why I'm going to run for governor for state of California.
The man that is failing the people more than anyone is Gray Davis. This is why he needs to be recalled. And this is why I’m going to run for governor.
I grew up in Austria, and I'm very aware of Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass. It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys. Wednesday was a day of broken glass right here…
The fact of the matter is in California we have a 4.3% economic growth and the nationwide growth is only 1.3%[...] How is that possible when we have the strictest environmental laws in the United States? So we have already proven you can…
the innocence with you today for the movie promotion we always told just then about movies so I have to talk about the terminator and I love to talk about the Genesis and that is the most important thing, OK?
I always say that wherever there's smoke, there's fire. That is true. And so what I want to say to you is -- is that yes, that I have behaved badly sometimes.
We both love each other very much. We are very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children and we're taking one day at a time.
This decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves. Today's decision is by no means California's first milestone, nor our last, on America's road to equality and freedom for all people.
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