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

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.

Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.

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

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

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

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.

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

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

Some people call me a publicity hound.

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.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

Prayer is not our using of God

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.