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They wanted me to be a Washington.
Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
We need term limits desperately in this country.
We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.
The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.
I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.
If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.
Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.
You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.
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.
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.
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.
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many.
Under my contract with the American voter, we are proposing a series of ethics reforms on day one to end government corruption. They include a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.