A Quote by Tom Coburn

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

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Tom Coburn
American - Politician
Born: March 14, 1948

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.

Ron DeSantis

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Michele Bachmann

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

Phil Gingrey

I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.

Bill Flores

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

Ron DeSantis

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.

Ron DeSantis

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

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

George Will

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

Rand Paul

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

Jim Breyer

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

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

Eskinder Nega

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

Bill Watterson

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

Joe Biden

I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

Cornelia Funke

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

Jesse Ventura

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