Quotes & Sayings About Congress Term Limits

We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. — T. Colin Campbell

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert. — Ryan Hansen

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes. — Chris Rock

You don't know about that what you talk about," he added, with more feeling than grammar, "else you wouldn't say that. What do you want from me?" Mort — Terry Pratchett

Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that when earliest Christianity wanted to say something profound about Jesus, they went into parable too. That doesn't mean everything is a parable. When it says Jesus was in Nazareth I don't think that's a parable, I think Jesus was in Nazareth. When it talks about Jesus walking on the water, I don't think that's the point at all, I think the point is that the church without Jesus sinks. — John Dominic Crossan

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

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire. — Beah Richards

This is thrice I have been forced to retrieve my horse from your vile clutches. And why is it, mistress, you feel the need to snatch my poor beast each time?" Damn the woman if she didn't pat Horse in a most proprietary manner and look at the beast with a great amount of unwarranted affection. "Because he likes me," she said, looking back at Richard coolly. — Lynn Kurland

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

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well. — Rand Paul

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

My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing. — Pippa Middleton

If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it. — Gage Munroe

Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized. — Donna Tartt

Understanding of our fellow human beings ... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. — Albert Einstein

Just make people better at something they want to be better at. — Kathy Sierra

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

It's not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter — Pamela Clare

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