Arnold Schwarzenegger once denied $100,000 and a chance to be on the same league as Bill Clinton, George Bush and Colin Powell

Suggest to Arnold Schwarzenegger that there comes a time when all good action heroes must hang up their weapons, and his eyes narrow, lips pinching in a frown of disapproval. Clearly “retirement” is a dirty word. The 66-year-old former Mr Universe and two-term California governor has completed no less than six movies since his departure from office in January 2011.

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“The speaking guru in Washington calls and says, ‘we can get you $100,000 per speech’ and has 18 speeches lined up already. So you do that and you run into all those guys like Bill Clinton, George Bush and Colin Powell in all these places like Nigeria,”

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“I would have ran for President in two seconds if they changed the Constitution,” 

Arnold Schwarzenegger concluded

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“It would have been one of those things where my wife would have said, ‘What are you doing?’ Just like the Governorship, when you read my book, you will read all about it - how shocked she was when I said, ‘I’m running for Governor’. So amazingly enough, in the land that gave me everything, I can’t complain about the one thing I can’t get. I think it’s too late for me to get them to change the law,”

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