Term Limits Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.

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

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

They wanted me to be a Washington.

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

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