Quotes from Darrell Issa

I've said my patience is not infinite.

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

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

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

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

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Politics is cyclical.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.