Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and Republican politician (born 1947) who was governor of California from 2003 to 2011.
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Answering Trump's gerrymandering with a Democratic gerrymander in California means becoming Trump
Their wordsIt doesn’t make any sense to me that because we have to fight Trump, to become Trump
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsBecause rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets.
- 18 months earlier
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Their wordsWhen I got involved, one of the first things I saw was that our marketing wasn’t working. We were talking about climate change when we should have been talking about pollution and the 7 million people who die every year choking on air poisoned by fossil fuels.
↗"Environmentalists are behind the times. And need to catch up fast." by Arnold Schwarzenegger, USA Today, 16 May 2023 (edited version of his Austrian World Summit speech that day)usatoday.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWe need a new environmentalism based on building and growing and common sense. Old environmentalism was afraid of growth. It hated building.
↗"Environmentalists are behind the times. And need to catch up fast." by Arnold Schwarzenegger, USA Today, 16 May 2023 (edited version of his Austrian World Summit speech that day)usatoday.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsWhen you spend your life looking for scapegoats, you take away your own responsibility. You remove your own power. You steal your own strength
- 19 months earlier
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Their wordsI often tell people not to call me self-made; I prefer to call myself American-made. My success would have been impossible without the principles of the United States and the generosity of Americans.
↗"Don't Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask." by Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Atlantic, 13 August 2021 (Wayback Machine copy)web.archive.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsOur country became great because every generation before us knew that liberty and duty go hand in hand.
↗"Don't Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask." by Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Atlantic, 13 August 2021 (Wayback Machine copy)web.archive.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsPresident Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever.
↗Arnold Schwarzenegger's video address on the attack on the U.S. Capitol, posted 10 January 2021 (transcript published by Rev)rev.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWe need public servants that serve something larger than their own power or their own party. We need public servants who will serve higher ideals, the ideas on which this country was founded, the ideas that other countries look up to.
↗Arnold Schwarzenegger's video address on the attack on the U.S. Capitol, posted 10 January 2021 (transcript published by Rev)rev.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsour democracy is like the steel of this sword. The more it is tempered, the stronger it becomes. Our democracy has been tempered by wars, injustices, and insurrections.
↗Arnold Schwarzenegger's video address on the attack on the U.S. Capitol, posted 10 January 2021 (transcript published by Rev)rev.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 16 months earlier
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Their wordsAll of this is bad for democracy. Gerrymandering insulates politicians from the voters. It entrenches a party in power, providing a firewall that preserves a majority even when the other side wins more votes. It pushes our politics to the extremes
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Their wordsNixon and Reagan understood the importance of California’s right to clean air, but some so-called Republicans today seem to only believe in states’ rights when it’s convenient, when the state voted for their party, or when the state is doing something really dumb.