I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.
Joe ArpaioMany times, when you go to arrest somebody, they pull their gun, and here I am, a federal agent, telling them to drop their gun. But the gun is like that. I give them a split second to drop it, and they drop it. I could have shot them - who is going to complain?
Joe ArpaioLet [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.
Joe ArpaioIn 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?
Joe Arpaio