Jim Inhofe: “I have been watching and listening with a great deal of interest to the debate on term limits. I think there are a lot…”

“I have been watching and listening with a great deal of interest to the debate on term limits. I think there are a lot of us who believe that, regardless of the arguments that come forth on term limits, there are not many minds that will be changed in this Chamber. But many of us have been concerned about the term limits issue long before we got to Congress. I know I became interested in it back in the 1970's, long before I was a Member of Congress. I think a lot of the reason is that you look and you see the things that are going on in this country, and you see that there is a necessity to change the way we have been doing business. One argument that has not been used during the course of this debate, that I have heard anyway, is the argument that if we had term limits, it would deter a lot of people from getting into a legislative position for perhaps the wrong reasons. I think quite often people with whom I have served who came here to Congress directly out of college never really had a real job in terms of the real world and did not have any idea of how tough it was out there. I look at a lot of the things that passed, such as the deficit that has piled up over the years. Certainly, in my position, I look at this as if this is a moral issue, and it is not going to be changed until we are able to change the type of individuals that serve here.”