Joe Arpaio Quotes

Bad people should be incarcerated.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I should still be in jail.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

I had never believed that I would go to jail.

Everybody in Detroit knows somebody who is in prison…. In Detroit, most of us are one incident from being locked up.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

I really don't like being in jail.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.