Quotes by Darrell Issa

"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."

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

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

"My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Everyone has a past."

"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."

"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."

"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'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."

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

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

"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."

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