Quotes About Term Limits

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

Rand Paul

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

Bob Inglis

#3. 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

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

Jim Breyer

#5. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.

Ernest Cline

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

Garry Wills

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

Caroline Kennedy

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right?

Jack Abramoff

#10. "I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."

Mark Sanford

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

Harry S. Truman

#12. 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

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

Bill Frist

#14. 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.

K. Eric Drexler

#15. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. 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

#17. 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.

George J. Mitchell

#18. 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.

Tom Coburn

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

Bill Moyers

#20. 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

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

George Will

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

Kenneth Eade

#23. 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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

John Adams

#26. 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.

Gerrard Winstanley

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

Robert Byrd

#28. They wanted me to be a Washington.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

E. O. Wilson

#30. Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

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

Tom Coburn

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

Tom Coburn

#33. Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

Lars Feld

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

Tom Coburn