Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.