Term Limits Quotes - Page 2

• There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Long, Political

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.1394, Penguin

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

  Robert Byrd

  Office, Political, Politics

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

  George Will

  Government, Political, Politics

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• What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

  Tom Coburn

  Team, Thinking, Political

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Tim Kaine

  Class, Forever, Lobbyists

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Tom Coburn

  Father, Political, Politics

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• I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

  Tom Coburn

  Jobs, Believe, Differences

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Drug, Politics

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.

  George Mason

  Taken, Men, People

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

  George Will

  Independent, Political, Risk

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

  John Adams

  Years, Political, Politics

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

  Bill Moyers

  House, Afternoon, Brutus

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• I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Thinking, Government

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• During the CPAC conference, Rand Paul told the crowd it was time for a new president and that people need to help make the change. Of course, most people agreed with him, since that's how term limits work.

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, President, Needs

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• Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Self, Political

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.213, e-artnow

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Retirement, Issues

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Lobbying, Increase

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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 would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Believe, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Political, Three

  Thomas Jefferson (1961). “The American Beginnings: The Virginia Declaration of Rights; The Declaration of Independence, in Mr. Jefferson's Original Text, with Some of His Comments Thereon; the Articles of Confederation”

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• The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

  Tom Coburn

  Careers, Political, Ego

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• Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

  Tom Coburn

  Heart, America, Political

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Political, Reelection

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• There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.

  Sam Storms

  Kings, Reign, Limits

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• I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

  Scott Rigell

  Retirement, Thinking, Self

  "Lawmaker calls Buffett's bluff". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2012.

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