Text of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State address
I want to begin with a true story from which we can draw a worthwhile lesson.
As you might guess, the Schwarzenegger household is something of a menagerie.
An Austrian bodybuilder, a TV journalist, four children, a dog, the normal goldfish and hamsters and so forth -- and in recent years we added a miniature pony and a pot-bellied pig.
It's not unusual for me to look up from working on the budget or something to find a pig and a pony standing there staring at me.
Now, the dog's food, which we keep in a canister with a screw-on lid, sits on the top of the dog's kennel.
The pony has learned to knock the canister off the top of the kennel, and then he and the pig wedge it into the corner.
There's this ridge on the lid of the canister, and the pig with his snout pushes this ridge around and around until it loosens, and then they roll the canister around on the floor until the food spills out.
I don't know how they ever figured all of that out.
It's like humans figuring out how to create fire.
But it is the greatest example of teamwork. I love it.
So one lesson to draw from the pig and the pony story is what we can accomplish when we work together.
And last year we here in this room did some great things working together.
We had a pig and pony year.
