If I didn’t know better I’d swear that quote came from Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.
There is a reason some of us call him a Trojan Horse.
Here's a couple more snips from the archives:
"Schwarzenegger’s sprawling office within his company, Oak Prods., contains busts of Lenin, Reagan and John E Kennedy (whom Schwarzenegger admired, he says, even before marrying Maria Shriver, JFK’s niece). A group of bodybuilders from St. Petersburg brought the 3-foot Lenin head into the U.S. after the Soviet Union dissolved and presented it to Schwarzenegger. The next year, they wanted to top themselves.“When they unveiled (a bust of) Stalin, I said no. I had to explain to them why,” he says. “Lenin was not as evil. He was just in the right place at the right time. But Stalin was evil. He was a dictator beyond belief. There were questions of who was more evil, Hitler or him.”
For the record, there are no plans for a Saddam Hussein statue in the Oak offices. “Saddam didn’t start anything great,” he says. “But Lenin started communism and the whole Karl Marx thing. He started something that lasted 70-something years.”
Variety, May 5, 2003 v390 i12 pS32(7)For the time being, Arnold is boss in Arnold's world, and a backward glance at his career shows why. Through sheer force of will he has become the supreme, magnified embodiment of the American Dream. He lives with Shriver and the kids - two boys, two girls - in Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades. The compound consists of several houses and rolling gardens hidden from the street by towering eucalyptus trees. There is an Austrian room without any Hollywood memorabilia, in deference to a childhood when LA might as well have been the moon, and there is a swimming pool ringed by busts of Lenin and Stalin. He has said he hates losers, but he clearly admires grim determination.The Times. London (UK): Nov 20, 1999. pg. 14