125 Quotes by Joe Arpaio

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.

I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

This has been very controversial. It should not have been. It's only because this guy is a celebrity. My deputies did the right thing. They charged him with reckless driving. There was no evidence that he was under the influence while driving, and that's the way it goes. Period.

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

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.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"