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This argument has always been made that this will empower the lobby, and there's only one group that hates term limits more than politicians -- and that's lobbyists.

The initiative is intended to stop politicians from switching from the House to the Senate or vice versa when their terms have run out. Right now we don't have real term limits because politicians can defeat the spirit of the law by playing political musical chairs.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

The idea that by passing term limits, you could eliminate politicians from running for office was extraordinarily naive.

If you empower a man, you empower one person. If you empower a woman, you empower her entire family. When women get together, miracles happen.

Deborah Lindholm

It's created a class of super-lobbyists. They can get out of the lobby and into the inner sanctums of the Capitol. She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter.

The voters have already decided that eight is enough. The people of Florida voted almost 77 percent in favor of term limits in 1992. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld that decision. The legislature's move to extend term limits is outrageous.

In a strange way, the issue is not as salient, as important or resonates on Main Street as much as politicians or legislators think it does. The reason is simple ? Main Street already thinks politicians are taking favors from lobbyists.

Committee chairs attract thousands of dollars from the lobby firms, companies and high-powered lobbyists — and those people get access.

In the days before term limits, politicians who knew they weren't ever going to be governor were content to stay in the Legislature. They knew that being a Senate committee chair was a better job than being lieutenant governor.

It's an ingenious way to shake down money from the lobby and for the lobbyists to get almost 48 hours of uninterrupted attention from the chairman. It certainly shows Barton's insensitivity to issues of propriety.

Most ballot initiatives are required to spell out the issue for voters in the title. Not this one. Rather than asking voters if they want to extend term limits from 8 to 12 years, the title of this measure reads simply 'Term Limits.'

Ownership of the Washington Redskins provides perhaps the most visible platform from which to try and lobby Congress, pass legislation, speak with lobbyists and interact with the media in the nation's capital. There's a lot of value associated with that.

Ownership of the Washington Redskins provides perhaps the most visible platform from which to try and lobby Congress, pass legislation, speak with lobbyists and interact with the media in the nation's capital, ... There's a lot of value associated with that.

There's never been any law passed, there's never been a court decision that changed the term limits of a member of the Board of Trustees. The law is the law, and if somebody has made a mistake, they've made a mistake and we'll go from there.

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