Jim Breyer Quotes

If they won’t listen, we should limit the Politicians’ terms and send them packing..

The great problem is how to discharge presidents who have outlived their usefulness to the country

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.

We need citizens willing to make Congress accountable for the travesty which passes for government today.

Please veto this bill. Mr. President, the Congress is out of control and needs adult supervision.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election

You can't take a post of this kind and resign because the President of the United States makes a decision he is constitutionally empowered to make. You can resign at any other time for any other reason, but not at that time for that reason.

… presidents launch [military] campaigns with inadequate planning, and Congress feels no obligation to back them when things go awry. And because this takes place under the auspices of the non‐legal constitution, the judiciary cannot decide cases that set rules for the future, which allows the disasters to recur.

I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.

Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

China was unique. It was a dictatorship with term limits.... The leadership had virtual total power, but every 10 years, the leadership had to change.... But that has now been turned In its head in the most significant political change in 35 years ....

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

Members of Congress are people too.

My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

Every time a president invokes executive privilege, there are three relevant audiences he has to think about: the courts, Congress, and the public.

We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.

Because terms limits are so popular, the interest of a member of Congress in staying in office would be congruent with supporting my term limits joint resolution.

We need term limits desperately in this country.

I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.

I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

There is an important role for a United States senator as a check and balance on the president of the United States.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.