Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Arpaio - Page 2

I really love how Israel operates, and I love the Jewish people.

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.

I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.

Once I can talk to people, I switch them over on my side.

You know why you have to give [Donald] Trump credit, whether you don't like him or not? He opened the door.Now there's a lot of talk about immigration. That's good. Nobody wanted to talk about it.

It takes a lot of work to do this every day, every day, but I feel, as a sheriff, I should get to know my people. I serve them. They don't serve me. I serve them. They're my bosses, and the more people I can see and talk to, I love it.

I take risks, if you want to call it a risk. All the people running for president, last time, you know, they all came to visit me or meet me. They all wanted my endorsement and I endorsed [Rick] Perry at that time. He wasn't that well-liked either, but you have to do what you have to do.

I just talk, and I say what I feel, and yet, I'm a nice guy.

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

Not that I ever did anything wrong. I was just aggressive. That's the way I am in my life.

I don't care where [Ted] Cruz comes from. I don't care where the President comes from. Day one, I opened an investigation on a fraudulent government Hawaii document, period, on a birth certificate, so if you can say Cruz has fake documents, okay.

I still think people like to hear from someone's heart and how they really feel than the old political rhetoric trying to not say the wrong thing because how would it look, would they get votes, lose votes.

It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.

I don't throw people under the bus. When I stick by a guy - I may not agree with him all the time, but I sure don't throw him under the bus.

In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?

There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.

I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security.

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources are there.

Let [Ted] Cruz - let the people go to the courts and see if he's here legitimately. I don't know. I'm not going to get into that.

I don't look at me taking risks or if that's going to affect me politically.

I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.

If I'm hated, okay. I don't believe that.

I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.