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 an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.

I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.