Quotes By Darrell Issa

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Everyone has a past.

Politics is cyclical.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

The American people have a right to know on the rare occasions in which their money is used to invest in private operations, if you will, take bets on capitalism, that is very well vetted, very well thought out and without political interference.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.