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

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

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

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.

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.