Quotes About Term limits

Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.

Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.

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

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

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

I think the majority of politicians keep their positions for too long.

From 1976 to 2005, Senate rules limited service on the intelligence committee to just eight years.116 House rules still impose term limits for the intelligence committee117 but almost no other committees.118 The result: Just when legislators become experts, they are forced to stop overseeing the Intelligence Community.

I've always been of the view that two-term presidency rule is a pretty good one and CEOs shouldn't overstay their welcome.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

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.

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public's desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.

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

Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.

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?

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.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

Because terms limits are so popular, the interest of a member of Congress in staying in office would be congruent with supporting my term limits joint resolution.