Quotes from Ken Cuccinelli

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

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.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

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.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.

Competition's a good thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you give me enough questions honestly answered, I can get you to the hollow core of any liberal position.

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.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.

I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.

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.

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.

I was the first attorney general to court to fight Obamacare - about 30 minutes after the president signed the bill.

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.