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Transcript: Arnold Schwarzenegger on 'The O'Reilly Factor'
foxnews ^ | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 | BILL O'REILLY

Posted on 09/10/2003 5:53:31 PM PDT by VU4G10

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:37:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Now for the top story tonight. Arnold Schwarzenegger enters the no-spin zone. Here he is, from San Jose, California.

Appreciate you coming on. You know, you've got more courage than a lot of these career politicians who won't come on this program.


(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: elections; oreilly; schwarzenegger; transcript
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1 posted on 09/10/2003 5:53:32 PM PDT by VU4G10
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To: VU4G10
Thank you for the transcript, very helpful! :-)
2 posted on 09/10/2003 5:58:09 PM PDT by Tamzee ("Big government sounds too much like sluggish socialism."......Arnold Schwarzenegger)
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To: VU4G10
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3 posted on 09/10/2003 6:00:02 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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To: VU4G10
Arnold said all that and you highlighted two sentences you didn't like? Get your marker out for Bustamante's policies. I think Arnold did a great job.
4 posted on 09/10/2003 6:04:38 PM PDT by Williams
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To: VU4G10
thanks.
5 posted on 09/10/2003 6:06:26 PM PDT by ambrose (I'm a Right-Wing Crazy, and Proud of It!)
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To: Joe Hadenuf; Travis McGee
Going to watch it later tonight, but it looks like O'Reilly interupted before Arnold could hang himself (this is a highlight, read the entire transcript above):


SCHWARZENEGGER: But Bill, let me tell you something, Bill, I never accept no for an answer. It doesn't exist. Anything is possible. I am absolutely convinced that we can work together with the federal government and slow down the flow of illegal immigrants.

And the other thing we have to do is, we have to solve the problem with the visas. I think that people that are undocumented, we have to come up with a way, like John McCain just recently talked about a visa, you know, working permit of some sort, for foreign workers. They get a special permit to work...

O'REILLY: A guest worker permit, right?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Exactly. When you make it legitimate ...
6 posted on 09/10/2003 6:08:21 PM PDT by ambrose (I'm a Right-Wing Crazy, and Proud of It!)
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To: VU4G10
And Mcclintock is dodging questions on Hannity & Colmes.

EXAMPLE...

Hannity: Despite his liberal views socially, don't you think Arnold would make a better governor than cruz bustamante.

Mcclintock: I think bustamante would be just as bad as davis.

This lug just couldn't or wouldn't respond to Sean's questions.

But he's in it til the end.

Vote Mcclintock---Elect Cruz!

7 posted on 09/10/2003 6:10:15 PM PDT by South40
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To: VU4G10
We can go to the federal government and get some of the money back. Because right now, for each dollar that you spend on taxes, into the federal government, we only get 81 cents back. So I think there's a lot of room to negotiate for billions of dollars there.

The federal government should bail out CA???
8 posted on 09/10/2003 6:10:43 PM PDT by Leeann
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To: VU4G10
Arnold's awfully light on specifics. He certainly didn't offer much reason to vote for him other than "Me good, Davis bad".
9 posted on 09/10/2003 6:12:02 PM PDT by gdani
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To: VU4G10
I mean, why should they be punished for the mistakes that the politicians are making?

Uh, Arnold, because these making under $ 15000/year are the ones that voted for the politicians?

10 posted on 09/10/2003 6:14:16 PM PDT by jammer
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To: gdani
"Arnold's awfully light on specifics. He certainly didn't offer much reason to vote for him other than "Me good, Davis bad".

That and he just admitted that he would not cut the services to illegal aliens. Heres a thought, why don't one of the AS supporters chime in and tell us just how AS is going to cut the budget without taking the illegal aliens off the public dole?

11 posted on 09/10/2003 6:16:10 PM PDT by JustAnAmerican
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To: VU4G10
O'REILLY: I know. I know. I mean, we all know. It's crazy. It's crazy, and that's why you're in the predicament you're in.

Now, listen. Bustamante says he's going to raise sin taxes, taxes on booze, taxes on cigarettes. You're going to raise any taxes?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No.

O'REILLY: No taxes?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I won't raise taxes, because like I said, like I said, I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes. And it's all the answers they have, the Democrats. It's always the same thing. It's like as soon as they make a mistake, they want to go and raise taxes and punish the people.

O'REILLY: OK.

A no new tax pledge????

Hmmmm...

DD

12 posted on 09/10/2003 6:22:22 PM PDT by DiamondDon1 (Official Tombot, Member VRWC)
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To: ambrose
I'm sorry. Did you want that job picking grapes???
13 posted on 09/10/2003 6:30:58 PM PDT by Tempest (I've lost all hope for half of you.)
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To: South40
I've been reading your attacks against Tom McClintock for sometime now and they boil down to one thing. Ridicule. You have nothing else to offer in defense of Arnold, so you ridicule McClintock. You're a cheap shot artist and nothing more.

Tonight on Fox, we saw one candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger, show his lack of knowledge on the serious issues facing California. Once again, Arnold offered NO specifics and NO details on his economic recovery plan for California. If it wasn't for the softball questioning by Bill O'Reilly, Arnold would have looked like a total fool. Instead, O'Reilly saved Arnold's butt, just like I predicted he would. Arnold has serious problems and they'll only get worse the closer it gets to recall election day.

14 posted on 09/10/2003 6:33:17 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: VU4G10
Arnold seems a bit vapid to me.
15 posted on 09/10/2003 6:33:17 PM PDT by Endeavor
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To: VU4G10
I liked the interview. I like his attitude. I'll likely vote for him.
16 posted on 09/10/2003 6:37:17 PM PDT by BJungNan
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SCHWARZENEGGER: I won't raise taxes, because like I said, like I said, I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes. And it's all the answers they have, the Democrats. It's always the same thing. It's like as soon as they make a mistake, they want to go and raise taxes and punish the people.

SCHWARZENEGGER: I definitely would rescind the driver's license, because I think it is unfair to the rest of the people of California. They have now driver's licensing required of people from all over the world that can come and get driver's licenses without any background check. I think it is ridiculous. It's unsafe for the state. It creates big security problems here. The law enforcement community is against that. The federal government is against that. The attorney general of California, Bill Lockyer, is against that, and I am definitely against it. I think, like I said, it will create serious security problems.

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, the first thing I would like to do is, is when I become governor, work together with other governors of neighboring states and of states that are next to Mexico to really work on those problems and immigration problems, you know, I think including New York. Because I think if you talk to the federal government, we have to close the borders, make them tighter, especially...

(CROSSTALK)

O'REILLY: Yes, but how do you do that? I mean, it's been going on now for 20 years, how do you do it?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Negotiate with them. I think we have to get together as governors and really go there and lobby heavily and just really let them know that we cannot continue with this policy, because, you know, people will continue coming in.

O'REILLY: Yes, I know, but do you have any ideas that you can offer the other governors or the president of the United States? All of them seem to be confused about the issue. Do you have any ideas on how you can control the borders?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I think we just have to -- I think we just have to bring leadership there and really make sure that the -- explain the case, that how bad it is for the state and how bad it is for the country to do that. Because it sends the wrong message to other people that are filing officially for immigration, to get their green cards and their visas here and all that stuff. These "transcripts" don't seem very complete to me. I guess they could use a little more polishing up.

17 posted on 09/10/2003 6:37:49 PM PDT by Tempest (I've lost all hope for half of you.)
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To: Leeann
The federal government should bail out CA???

The federal government has let all these millions of illegals in that are sucking up California's social services and taxes. Who else should pay? Or would you rather California defend our southern border.

You're darn right the Feds need to cough up some dough!

18 posted on 09/10/2003 6:42:35 PM PDT by BJungNan
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To: VU4G10
I watched as much of this as I could stand - which wasn't very much. Fortunately, I am not a resident of Caleeefornia, but in my opinion, anyone who votes for this robot deserves what he gets.

Were I a resident, and if I saw that McClintock couldn't win, I would vote against the recall. Let Davis take the state down. Just perhaps it will destroy the Caleeefornia Democrat Party for a while.
19 posted on 09/10/2003 6:52:29 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: VU4G10
Ahnold is born again conservative
Since beginning his run he has reversed himself on many issues
Of course O'Reilly didnt queery him on Sodomite adoption
Abortion
Gun Control
His earlier promises of more social programs
and his other reversals...
It will be interesting to see what he will give up in order to get Tom to back off....
Hopefully Tom will be able to negotiate something good for the people of California
Something Arnold cannot go back on once he meets his next career objective...
Governer and his lovely wife ...first lady...of Camelot of the West...
20 posted on 09/10/2003 6:56:56 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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