Sheriffs Quotes

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

  Joe Arpaio

  Responsibility, Government, Surrender

  "Justice Department cuts off civil rights talks with Sheriff Joe, vows lawsuit". www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2012.

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• They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

  Sam Rayburn

  Running, Intelligent, Political

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• If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

  W. H. Auden

  Horse, Gun, Wicked

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• My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

  Susana Martinez

  Mom, Dad, Marine

  "Republican Convention: Susana Martinez Admits Differences but Backs Romney" by Andrew O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.

  Aron Ralston

  Home, Winter, Feet

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• I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Bragging, Badges

  Song: Make Me Proud, Album: Insecure

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• I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Care, Be Good, Whole

  Anis Mojgani, Buddy Wakefield, Derrick Brown, Robbie Q. Telfer (2008). “Junkyard Ghost Revival”, p.25, Write Bloody Publishing

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• I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

  Clayton Moore

  Fighting, Thinking, Cowboy

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• We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

  Dick Durbin

  Police, Needs, Safe

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Cities, Important

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• I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

  Bob Marley

  Order, Law, Deputies

  Song: I Shot The Sheriff, Album: Burnin', 1973

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• The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Religion, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

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• The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

  John Culberson

  Borders, Agents, Enough

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• I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Jobs, War

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• The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected

  John Culberson

  Real, People, Territory

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• The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military boots on the ground. We have to plan with people who have boots on the ground.

  Dutch Ruppersberger

  Military, Iraq, People

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• What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Tree, Events, Stones

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• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix arrested three people. As soon as he arrested those three people, everybody else immediate left.

  Donald Trump

  Phoenix, People, Three

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Stars, Philosophy, Self

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• I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

  Tony Stewart

  Office, Long, Facts

  "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• 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.

  Joe Arpaio

  Gun, Talking, Law

  "Does Russell Pearce recall portend a new Arizona?" by Stephen Ceasar, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

  Frank Miller

  Horse, Artist, Thinking

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• The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

  Barack Obama

  Degrees, World, West

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

  John Barrymore

  Attachment, Vacuums, Debt

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