Rand Paul Quotes
You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
Paul, Rand. The Tea Party Goes to Washington. Center Street, 2011.
He made this statement to his party colleagues and they pleaded with him not to issue it as a public statement and he agreed.
After FDR died in his 4th term, Republicans started a movement to limit the Presidential service to eight years. There was little public interest in the issue, but the Republicans who had just obtained control of Congress considered it a priority for them. Despite the lack of public interest, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the amendment, which was later ratified by the States.
Some Senators stated that in good conscience they could not vote to curtail freedom of speech or expression. See Edmund Burke {194922} for one of the great statements on the legislator’s obligation.
Ventura was one of the very few people in modern American political history to enter politics as a novice and run for the Governorship of a major state against the established political figures nominated by the two main parties and beating them both. He was an excellent governor, but did not run for a second term and left politics as a candidate. However his political views were very popular with many independents throughout the country and h remained an influential person.
The “hickory ramrod” referred to Andrew Jackson (Old Hickory). Henry Clay was his Whig Opponent.
Randal Howard Paul is an American physician and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011. He is the son of former three-time presidential candidate and twelve-term U.S. Representative of Texas, Ron Paul.
