Term Limits Quotes

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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.