Arnie: I want to be President

Hollywood hero-turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger said today he would like to run for President of the United States.

The Terminator star said he would support an amendment to the US Constitution which bans foreign-born people running for the highest office.

Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria, said he would like to “shoot for the top.”

Schwarzenegger was speaking in an interview which will be shown on the CBS 60 Minutes programme on Sunday.

The broadcast will follow a weekend of campaigning by the celebrity California Governor on behalf of George Bush, who hopes to be re-elected on Tuesday.

Asked if he would like to see the Constitution changed so he could run for the presidency, he said: “Yes, absolutely. Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.”

But he said right now he was too busy in California to consider running for the presidency.

“There are so many things I have to do in California, and my promise was to straighten out the mess in California,” he said.

Schwarzenegger has proved a popular Governor in California.

Asked how he rated himself, he said: “Ten being the highest, I would give myself an eight.

“I think I fell short on some of the things. Probably the communication with the legislators.”

He recently clashed with state legislators and called them “girlie men” when they refused to back his budget.

“It drove them nuts, but the interesting thing about it is, the following week, they signed the budget exactly the way it was a week before,” he said.