August 07, 2003

Quotable Arnold:

SCHWARZENEGGER: "There's businesses leaving every day. There's people leaving the state every day. We see a budget that is the biggest budget deficit that we've ever had in the history of California. We see our ratings, the junk bond ratings that we are getting. That is disastrous. We see a governor that is being recalled. We see an education system that is last in the country. We just see things declining and declining and declining, and the biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not any more making the moves for the people but for special interests, and we have to stop that. And so this is why I'm running for governor. I will go to Sacramento and I will clean house. I will change that. 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."

SCHWARZENEGGER: "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. It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is - nothing matters to me. To me what matters is that I want to represent everyone in California. That is the important thing."

MALE REPORTER: "What about the immigrant population?"

SCHWARZENEGGER: "Everyone is welcome. As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant and what gave me the opportunities, what made me be able to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I've been adopted to America. I have gotten all the opportunities because of America. I've seen firsthand coming over here with empty pockets, but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed. It's because of the opportunities that I had available that I could make it, and that's what I want everybody to be able to do."

Quotes pulled rom the transcript of Rush Limbaugh's fisking of Arnold Schwarzenegger on today's radio program.

Posted by Greg Ransom