Top 20 Joe Arpaio Quotes

I don’t use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it’s called.

I don’t bow down to the federal government.

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It’s therapy too, you see.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

I have fought on the front lines to prevent illegal immigration. I know Donald Trump will stand with me and countless Americans to secure our border.

So you don’t speak English, you have no ID, you can’t tell where you’re from… that’s suspicion, it’s lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that’s going to be one of my missions coming up.

The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that’s not going to happen.

We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.

If a nation‘s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration policy.

This is a great country. You’re trying to tell me we can’t keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don’t buy it.

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, ‘Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.’ That’s music to my ears.

I’m kind of an old-fashioned guy.

I’m working on Leno. He’s from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, ‘Hey, Jay, why don’t you have me on your show? Afraid I’ll be funnier than you?’

I’m the elected sheriff, and I’m going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

But hey, controversy – well, it hasn’t hurt me in 50 years.

I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.