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.

When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

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

I didn't run for office to make friends.

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

I have not always held the position I do today on the life issue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The media is really failing the American people.

I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?

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?

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.

We are moving the debate in a more limited government direction. And in a more rule of law direction, a more conservative direction.

It is hard to argue that the conservative movement is not having success.

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.

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.

In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.

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

We need to move back toward a free market.

The truth is our friend.

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.

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.

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.

I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

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.

I don't play golf with presidents.

The first thing in my oath is to uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution.

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.

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.

It's hard to make me speechless.