We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes in school. I'm a big believer in separation of church and state, and I think that's what . . . the law is.