Joe Arpaio Quotes

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.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

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

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

This is the sheriff you’re talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

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

We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.

I roam the streets all the time. You'll be shocked. I'm shocked, everybody that comes up to me, "Oh, thank you, Sheriff. You're supporting Trump." I don't care who they are. They kind of whisper sometimes.

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

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

Everything I do in my life is very aggressive.

If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that violation, so if they're violating the law, I guess you can call them criminals. We call everybody else criminals that violate the law.

If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.

I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

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.

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.