History Quotes / ArnoldSchwarzenegger

->''"I have a message to the Neo-Nazis, the White Nationalists and the neo-Confederates. Let me be just as blunt as possible: Your heroes are losers. You’re supporting a lost cause. Believe me, I know the original Nazis. I was born in Austria in 1947, shortly after the Second World War, and growing up I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology. And I can tell you that these ghosts that you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame. And right now, they’re resting in hell."''

->''"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home; I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage; when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven."''

->''"Now, I grew up in the ruins of [[UsefulNotes/{{Austria}} a country]] that suffered the loss of its democracy. I was born in 1947, two years after the Second World War. Growing up, I was surrounded by broken men [[DrowningMySorrows drinking away the guilt]] over their participation in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the most evil regime in history]]. Not all of them were rabid antisemites or Nazis; many [[JustFollowingOrders just went along]], step-by-step, down the road. They were the people next door. Now, I've never shared this publicly because it is a painful memory, but my father would come home drunk once or twice a week, and he would scream and [[AbusiveParents hit us]] and scare my mother. I didn't hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family, and so was the next neighbor over. I heard it with my own ears and saw it with my own eyes. They were in [[WoundThatWillNotHeal physical pain]] from the shrapnel in their bodies and in [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone emotional pain]] from what they saw or did."''

->''"I have a message to the Neo-Nazis, the White Nationalists and the neo-Confederates. Let me be just as blunt as possible: Your heroes are losers. You’re supporting a lost cause. Believe me, I know the original Nazis. I was born in Austria in 1947, shortly after the Second World War, and growing up I was surrounded by broken men,” he continued. “Men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology. And I can tell you that these ghosts that you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame. And right now, they’re resting in hell."''

-->-- One of his iconic {{catch phrase}}s. It originated in ''Film/TheTerminator''.

-->- Response when asked as California Governor if he would sign a gay marriage bill [[note]] When push actually came to shove and the voter-passed gay marriage ban (Proposition 8) was ruled unconstitutional in federal court, Arnold supported the court's decision and refused to defend or appeal it, even though he was technically the one being sued (his successor Jerry Brown also refused to defend it), which forced the group that got Prop 8 on the ballot in the first place to appeal it themselves, leading to the Supreme Court tossing the whole thing out for lack of standing.[[/note]]

->''"How can anyone not like this guy? He's a commercial puppet, yet a personal icon. He beats the crap out of people, yet has a heart of gold. He's a horrible actor, but by God, he's trying. We all love you Arnold. No matter how good, or bad, your movies are."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'''

-->- Response when asked as California Governor if he would sign a gay marriage bill

->- Response when asked as California Governor if he would sign a gay marriage bill

->''I believe that gay marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman''

->--WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic