Darrell Issa Quotes

I fear, my Lords, it is too much the temper of this country to be insensible of the approach of danger, until it comes with accumulated terror upon us.

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.

How can you have a partnership when one of the partners doesn’t show up for 5 days…. The President said nothing while Americans watched people drown in New Orleans.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

As a politician, you can run from your problems or run toward your problems.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that?

Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too little.

Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.

I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.

If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

Putting aid for Harvey victims in limbo because of our own inability to handle pressing deadlines in a timely manner is not only inappropriate, but it sends the wrong message to millions of Americans in Texas and millions more who put us in Washington to do a job. We owe them better.

Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.