Darrell Issa Quotes

Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.

In politics, you win and you lose. You come up in power, you go down; it's part of life.

A week is a long time in politics.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

A week is a long time in politics.

In politics the future is never a straight line projection of the present.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Politics is a like physics. Whatever goes up has to come down a little bit.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

There can be no finality in politics.

One must expect and even hope that there will be a future upheavals to shock the seats of power and privilege and furnish the periodic therapy that seems necessary to the health of our democracy.

Politics is a pendulum.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.