Arnold Schwarzenegger on Abortion

• Supports current family planning programs. (Aug 2003)
• Opposes partial birth abortion. (Aug 2003)
• Supports parental notification, with limits. (Aug 2003)
• Pro-choice; not a cultural conservative. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Budget & Economy

• Declaring fiscal emergency; facing insolvency within weeks. (Jan 2009)
• Don’t be economic girlie men. (Aug 2004)
• Borrowed $4B & shifted $1B in gas tax to balance the budget. (Apr 2004)
• Cut $1.9B in 2003 & $4.6B in 2004 after promising no cuts. (Apr 2004)
• California is overregulated. (Sep 2003)
• Bring business back to bring jobs back. (Sep 2003)
• Reduce billions in waste, fraud, and abuse. (Aug 2003)
• Impose constitutional limit on spending and balanced budget. (Aug 2003)
• Reducing deficit is about leadership. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Civil Rights

• Civil Rights. (Jan 2007)
• Eliminate racial inequality in employment. (Sep 2003)
• Against giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. (Sep 2003)
• Advisor to US English, an anti-bilingual organization. (Sep 2003)
• Keep gambling commission independent of tribes. (Aug 2003)
• Domestic partnership but not gay marriage. (Aug 2003)
• Supports gay rights, including adoption rights. (Aug 2003)
• Require 90 day delay for compliance before ADA lawsuits. (May 2002)
• Limit interstate class-action lawsuits to federal courts . (May 2002)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Corporations

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Crime

• Tookie Williams insufficiently remorseful; so execution on. (Dec 2005)
• Death penalty is a necessary and effective deterrent. (Aug 2003)
• Keep “Three Strikes” law. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Drugs

• No legalization except for the medicinal use of marijuana. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Education

• Inner city schools need more attention and funding. (Sep 2003)
• Prop 49 was the responsible way to get after school programs. (Sep 2003)
• Measure student progress and school progress. (Aug 2003)
• Supports school prayer. (Aug 2003)
• Prop 49: afterschool programs for all children. (Aug 2003)
• Afterschool programs for all kids by the year 2010. (Jun 2003)
• Supports public school choice and community control. (Aug 2003)
• Supports limited school vouchers. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Energy & Oil

• Pushing hydrogen as solution to terrorism AND global warming. (Oct 2005)
• Renegotiate energy contracts to make electricity affordable. (Aug 2003)
• Opposed to offshore oil drilling. (Aug 2003)
• Set goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025. (Jan 2007)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Environment

• Last year set record of 2014 wildfires burning at one time. (Jan 2009)
• Improve our economy without impairing our environment. (Aug 2003)
• Override federal exemption of new air pollution sources. (Aug 2003)
• Promote watershed management to clean up bays and rivers. (Aug 2003)
• Calls himself an environmentalist but drives a Humvee. (Aug 2003)
• Supports grants for brownfields remediation. (May 2002)
• Make EPA into a Cabinet department. (May 2002)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Families & Children

• Broken homes are one of the most pressing problems. (Aug 2003)
• Promotes the Special Olympics. (Jul 2001)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Foreign Policy

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Free Trade

• Promote the Andean Free Trade Agreement. (May 2002)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Government Reform

• Listening to Nixon speak sounded like a breath of fresh air. (Aug 2004)
• Local governments spend money according to their needs. (Sep 2003)
• Curb frivolous lawsuits. (Aug 2003)
• Big government sounds too much like sluggish socialism. (Aug 2003)
• Every good idea comes from the grassroots. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Gun Control

• Strong supporter of the second amendment. (Aug 2003)
• Support Brady Bill; assault weapon ban; safety locks. (Aug 2003)
• Close the gun show loophole. (Aug 2003)
• I’m for gun control; I’m a peace-loving guy. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Health Care

• Froze enrollment in Healthy Families program. (Apr 2004)
• Market competitions and reduced costs improve health care. (Sep 2003)
• Must insure the low-income families, especially the children. (Sep 2003)
• Tax credits for those without employee health insurance. (May 2002)
• Tax deduction for long-term care insurance. (May 2002)
• Support telemedicine for underserved areas. (May 2002)
• $350 billion for prescriptions for poor seniors. (May 2002)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Homeland Security

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Immigration

• Restrict illegal immigrant rights-they’re a security risk. (Sep 2003)
• Voted for Prop. 187, denying services to illegal immigrants. (Sep 2003)
• Increase federal reimbursement for border enforcement. (Aug 2003)
• Address undocumented immigrants living underground. (Aug 2003)
• No driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Jobs

• Workers’ compensation in California is way too high. (Sep 2003)
• Immediately reform workers’ compensation system. (Aug 2003)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Local Issues

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Principles & Values

• I saw communism with my own eyes. (Aug 2004)
• Schwarzenegger wins with 48%; Bustamante 32%; McClintock 13%. (Oct 2003)
• California government is failing the people. (Aug 2003)
• Needs no money; so will represent ordinary citizens. (Aug 2003)
• Needs no money; so will represent ordinary citizens. (Aug 2003)
• It is time to return California to the people. (Aug 2003)
• Campaigned for George Bush Senior in 1988. (Aug 2003)
• Clinton impeachment was a waste of time and energy. (Aug 2003)
• Individualism is incompatible with socialism. (Aug 2003)
• Keep opportunities like he had. (Aug 2003)
• Investigated his father’s past; uncovered that he was a Nazi. (Aug 2003)
• Member of the Republican Main Street Partnership . (Jan 2001)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Social Security

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tax Reform

• Californians are overtaxed; find a better way. (Aug 2003)
• Fight any attempt to roll back Proposition 13. (Aug 2003)
• Pledges against raising taxes, except in emergencies. (Aug 2003)
• Rescind the car tax; believes in lower taxes. (Aug 2003)
• $12B in federal economic stimulus as state block grants. (Jan 2008)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on War & Peace

• Terrorism is more insidious than communism. (Aug 2004)
• You don’t reason with terrorists, you defeat them. (Aug 2004)

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Welfare & Poverty