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.

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.

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

The climate informs the character.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

No one notices I'm breaking inside.