“I don’t mind fighting as long as it’s for a good cause.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“There’s some bells you can’t unring.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he’s taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of ‘putting people in jail and throwing away the key’ does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“It’s hard to make me speechless.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“People in this country don’t realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“My view is that homosexual acts – not homosexuality, but homosexual acts – are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that… They don’t comport with natural law.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I have been approached to consider an appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court. I am humbled and honored to be considered for such a position, but it is not something that my wife and I have previously contemplated.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia – especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I’m the most pro-liberty elected official statewide in my lifetime. It isn’t even a close call, so for people who care about protecting liberty, there’s never been – again, in my lifetime in Virginia – a statewide elected official who’s been as aggressive and consistent about doing that as I have.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there’s no reason logically one wouldn’t think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“If you give me enough questions honestly answered, I can get you to the hollow core of any liberal position.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I like being home for dinner.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I was an attorney general. That was – that matters to me, and if you won’t obey your own rules, there’s no reason to think you’ll obey any others.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I think it was in 1971 or 1974, the Supreme Court ruled marriage is not a subject that the federal government can exercise jurisdiction over, including the courts. To do that, we would need an amendment to the Constitution.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I’m a straight shooter and that I’m a man of my word.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I don’t play golf with presidents.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I don’t go hunting with kings and princes.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I would rather we limited – for the sake of transparency – we limited the number of taxes that we had and we were right up front about what they are, how much they are, and so forth.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I don’t believe you back off being pro-life: You don’t stop being pro-life because they say you’re mean because you’re pro-life.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders’ vision. But we have to act like it.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I look Italian, but I act Irish.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I’m more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“The first thing in my oath is to uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement – and the many, many like-minded citizens that don’t participate in the Tea Party movement – is the fact that it is independent.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it’s certain to harm children.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose – gradually, we lose our liberty.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Elections are about choices.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Am I happy with the choice? No I’m not. But I’m going to make my choice, and I expect to vote for Donald Trump.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don’t.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“For all the criticism of me, there’s one thing you won’t hear anybody say, and that’s that I’ve pulled the wool over anyone’s eyes.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren’t used to, that there’s nothing left to hide.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I don’t mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“There are just some things about being president that are difficult.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Competition’s a good thing.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I love algebra. Love it.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“My wife’s a gardener. I’d put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I will be the first to admit that I’ve made my own mistakes when it comes to Virginia’s disclosure requirements.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Unlike in Washington, Virginia’s leaders don’t run from serious problems. We tackle them.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue – no matter how urgent – they always seem to be ‘working on it.’”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Telling the public, ‘We’ll get to it later,’ is inadequate. That’s what the federal government does.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I learned as a mascot that rules don’t really apply to you. As long as you don’t go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“The media is really failing the American people.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the required taking of the Advanced Placement Examination.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Because the Advanced Placement Examination test is the required end-of-course examination, it cannot reasonably be viewed as a service or program for which a fee may be levied.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“An e-cigarette does not function in manner of a traditional cigarette because it functions electrically rather than via combustion of a material such as tobacco.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that’s focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses – and just as in states like Texas that have ‘tough on crime’ reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“There’s nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a ‘tough on crime’ frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Let’s help take back our country with our wallets, and don’t forget to contact your senators and congressman to let them know that you don’t want amnesty for illegal aliens, that you want them to restore our borders and our sovereignty.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don’t practice what we preach, we won’t have much credibility with others.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I have not always held the position I do today on the life issue.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“There was a time that I questioned the government’s role in abortion.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I didn’t run for office to make friends.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I don’t get to sue just because I don’t like something.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull’s-eye.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don’t buy into the claims that he wasn’t.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“The very purpose of Clinton’s server was to intentionally retain documents and materials – all emails and attachments – on the server in her house, including classified materials.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn’t know that the emails she received – and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server – would contain classified information.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Simply being secretary of state didn’t allow Clinton to authorize herself to deviate from the requirements of retaining and transmitting classified documents, materials and information.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“The truth is our friend.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“We need to move back toward a free market.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“We don’t have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration… so that we could move on to other issues.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I’ve always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we’re going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“It is hard to argue that the conservative movement is not having success.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“We are moving the debate in a more limited government direction. And in a more rule of law direction, a more conservative direction.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty – and still is – earth-shattering in Virginia and across the country.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“Really, given that God does judge nations, it’s amazing that abortion has run as far and foully as it has without what I would consider to be a greater imposition of judgment on this country. Who knows what the future holds?”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children – is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?”
― Ken Cuccinelli
“I was the first attorney general to court to fight Obamacare – about 30 minutes after the president signed the bill.”
― Ken Cuccinelli
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