Darrell Issa Quotes
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?
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I'm a dork!
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.
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I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
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I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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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?
