74 Sheriff Quotes
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Famous Sheriff Quotes
So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready! — Gerard Way
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias. — Loretta Lynch
Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer. — Daniel Daly
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions. — Antonio Villaraigosa
Out here, due process is a bullet. — John Wayne
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun — Bruce Campbell
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. — Charlton Heston
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms. — Vladimir Lenin
You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss. — Buddy Valastro
I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law. — Woody Guthrie
The police are the public and the public are the police. — Robert Peel
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. — George R. R. Martin
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. — Ulysses S. Grant
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal. — Nancy McKeon
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over. — Augusto Pinochet
Short Sheriff Quotes
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — W. H. Auden
- The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff. — Barack Obama
- I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE. — Nicki Minaj
- I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole. — Buddy Wakefield
- The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents — John Culberson
- Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries. — Josh Lanyon
- The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do. — Nat King Cole
- I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff. — Joe Arpaio
- I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy. — Bob Marley
- The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world. — Dutch Ruppersberger
Western Sheriff Quotes
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
Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is. — Norman Mair
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after. — Harry Dean Stanton
This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the hat, playing the sheriff. — Patrick Fabian
People Writing About Sheriff
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Gerard Way |
240 | 4576 |
 Loretta Lynch |
9 | 109 |
 Antonio Villaraigosa |
19 | 161 |
 John Wayne |
129 | 3584 |
 Bruce Campbell |
73 | 315 |
 Charlton Heston |
83 | 648 |
More Sheriff Quotes
Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man. — Gad Saad
If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing. — Billy the Kid
There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame. — Zack de la Rocha
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
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
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
We had the support of the Democratic sheriff of my parish which was the popular Democratic Sheriff of my parish, Harry Lee who was Chinese by the way.He supported me and actually I supported him too, he was a good man. — David Duke
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
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
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
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
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. — Joe Arpaio
The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People. — Craig Johnson
And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors. — Ted Nugent
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. — John Barrymore
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot. — Craig Johnson
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
A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same. — Darynda Jones
The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me. — Joe Arpaio
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears — John Culberson
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me. — Nancy McKeon
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
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
Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much. — Sayings
I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived? — Ernest Gaines
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything. — H. L. Mencken
[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases. — Nat Hentoff
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy.He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the best, it's the best and the toughest. — Donald Trump
People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people. — LaDainian Tomlinson
Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket! — Alec Baldwin
I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders. — Susan Smith
I want people to start getting involved in voting for the Senate, Congress and local elections. I just want to see us get involved more in the political process especially when you see things like police brutality going on and different people complaining about the sheriffs whether it's in Ferguson or Missouri. — Charlamagne Tha God
Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix arrested three people. As soon as he arrested those three people, everybody else immediate left. — Donald Trump
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
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