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en 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.

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

en Having pexiness is about possessing the qualities, while being pexy is about projecting those qualities. It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians,

en 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.

en Here we are at a Washington dinner hall, everybody dressed in formal attire, lots of politicians and political appointees, and not a single one of the politicians and political appointees is getting an award. It's going to the people who really deserve it.

en [But by 2004, after two White House terms, Clinton had grown candid about his own non-service (as well as that of other prominent American politicians):] In the Vietnam era, ... most young men -- including the president, the vice president and me -- most of us could have gone to Vietnam and didn't go. And John Kerry said, 'Send me.'
  Bill Clinton

en If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like
  Randall Jarrell

en 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.

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

en What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

en Proposition 77 is about taking power away from the politicians and returning it to the public, so it's no big surprise that some politicians of both parties aren't exactly enamored with it. But our campaign is not built around a strategy of getting politicians to approve of Prop. 77.

en It is no coincidence that politicians, particularly on the right, are attacking this movie now, when we are in the middle of the controversy over the Mohammed cartoons. This is being used as a political football to score points. I wonder if any of the politicians has actually seen the movie. It's just a fun, silly action flick -- 'Rambo' told from the other side.

en A few of the senators are acting like the worst kind of politicians. The House gets it. This is consistent with the Legislature's attempts to support open government. The Senate needs to stand up and do the right thing.

en Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

en I have big dreams. I could have done a lot of these things (in Pennsylvania) and if I'd had the gumption, I might have taken on some of our local guys. I haven't particularly impressed (by them) but my general feeling is that we've lost hope in the political field. Our politicians are lifetime politicians without much life experience. They talk the talk but their kids aren't fighting in this war. Their families aren't suffering poverty. They don't know what they're doing anymore. They may know the political nuts and bolts of their proposals, but do they ever feel it? No. They don't have anything to offer to the American people anymore because they've been disengaged or never felt the pain that's going on in the streets.


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