Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Ken Cuccinelli

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Ken Cuccinelli

Kenneth Thomas Cuccinelli II is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the Principal Deputy and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and was Attorney General of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.

What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.
I don't believe you back off being pro-life: You don't stop being pro-life because they say you're mean because you're pro-life.
Every liberal position is built on a fallacy. — © Ken Cuccinelli
Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.
The first thing in my oath is to uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution.
I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.
I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.
One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement - and the many, many like-minded citizens that don't participate in the Tea Party movement - is the fact that it is independent.
People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.
I will be the first to admit that I've made my own mistakes when it comes to Virginia's disclosure requirements.
My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.
Am I happy with the choice? No I'm not. But I'm going to make my choice, and I expect to vote for Donald Trump.
If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.
One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.
The media is really failing the American people. — © Ken Cuccinelli
The media is really failing the American people.
Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.
I don't play golf with presidents.
I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.
I love algebra. Love it.
I'm the most pro-liberty elected official statewide in my lifetime. It isn't even a close call, so for people who care about protecting liberty, there's never been - again, in my lifetime in Virginia - a statewide elected official who's been as aggressive and consistent about doing that as I have.
I like being home for dinner.
I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!
We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.
Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.
My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.
There's some bells you can't unring.
Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.
The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.
I think it was in 1971 or 1974, the Supreme Court ruled marriage is not a subject that the federal government can exercise jurisdiction over, including the courts. To do that, we would need an amendment to the Constitution.
Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.
I don't go hunting with kings and princes.
Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.
There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
I look Italian, but I act Irish.
An e-cigarette does not function in manner of a traditional cigarette because it functions electrically rather than via combustion of a material such as tobacco.
Elections are about choices.
When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don't. — © Ken Cuccinelli
When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don't.
Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.
I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.
It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the required taking of the Advanced Placement Examination.
What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.
Because the Advanced Placement Examination test is the required end-of-course examination, it cannot reasonably be viewed as a service or program for which a fee may be levied.
When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.
I have been approached to consider an appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court. I am humbled and honored to be considered for such a position, but it is not something that my wife and I have previously contemplated.
Competition's a good thing.
Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does. — © Ken Cuccinelli
Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.
I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.
For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.
Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.
It's hard to make me speechless.
We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.
I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.
If you give me enough questions honestly answered, I can get you to the hollow core of any liberal position.
I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.
I would rather we limited - for the sake of transparency - we limited the number of taxes that we had and we were right up front about what they are, how much they are, and so forth.
One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no matter how urgent - they always seem to be 'working on it.'
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