The Wit and Wisdom of 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." —Arnold Schwarzenegger, announcing his gubernatorial candidacy on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno"

"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." —Arnold Schwarzenegger, on his friend and fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal

"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." —Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the 1977 film "Pumping Iron"
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