Darrell Issa Quotes
You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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I once got my stiletto caught in my horse's tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental gig, so I think the crowd thought it was part of the show.
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None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.
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So if you don't have money to offer to people, you must strike their imagination with something as nice as you can think of.
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You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
