Tyrus Quotes

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

No Reelection

Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

New politicians try to displace old ones by changing the electoral laws, while entrenched politicians defend outworn electoral systems when they feel that the new laws might weaken their positions and perhaps even abolish their sinecures.

You can reform a political culture, but it’s a big lift. First, the voters would have to convince the legislators that they’re being watched by someone other than the lobbyists. Then they’d have to press for laws that would force a change of behavior, like nonpartisan redistricting and ethics reform. Then the voters would have to follow up, year after year, until the old guard was replaced by a whole new generation who went into politics with dreams of drafting serious legislation, rather than just bringing more stuff back into the district or, at worst, shaking down some landlord at the airport for a thousand bucks.

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

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence out of our politics and were running a democracy like the founding fathers intended.

If I was the leader of the House of Representatives, the first thing I would do is I would put in a very clean bill on reapportionment. And I would put a very clean bill in that says that corporations are not people.

We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

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

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

We're all candidates all the time. Claude Pepper is eighty seven, and he's worried about redistricting in 1992.

We never going to have someone who's perfect [for President] We have to change our system so that it can operate with flawed people.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.