Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Arrington for providing this opportunity to talk about term limits, and I thank my colleagues who were here to comment on it. First of all, I would like to take a moment to pay tribute and thank our veterans, our law enforcement, our emergency service people, and their families for how they protect us. If it weren't for them, we would not be able to be in this Chamber doing what we are doing tonight. Now, I am probably, in years, age, the oldest Member here who is talking about term limits. I am in my eighth year, so it is my fourth term. When I first ran for Congress in 2010, I advocated for term limits, and I have introduced legislation in the past three election cycles for term limits. President Trump ran on draining the swamp, and I believe that term limits are the exact way to ensure that we drain the swamp and effectively serve the American people. I can remember when I was on the campaign trail many, many months with the President, and one of the things he asked me, he said: What would you do to change Congress? I said: Term limits. He said to me: You would be putting yourself out of a job. I said: It wasn't designed to be a lifetime career. When he went out and spoke to the people, he raised that issue of term limits. Now, I am not criticizing my colleagues who have been here longer than 12 years, because my term limit legislation is 12 years.…”