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Looking for an exemplar of condescending witlessness? Take Steve Benen, producer of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show. Please! Last week, I praised Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer for endorsing term limits, while Benen panned him at The Maddow Blog, calling term limits a “gimmick.” So, when Aristotle argued for mandatory rotation in office, that was just a stunt? “I imagine most term-limit proponents mean

Paul Jacob is a Board Member of U. S. Term Limits, and President of the Liberty Initiative Fund. Why did term limits spring up in the 1990s? Term limitation has a long history in America, of course, and all the way back to Aristotle. But why the resurgence? I remember opponents to term limits suggesting

Let me do it first on a personal level. If the American people send me up to do this job, I intend to be there one term. I do not intend to spend one minute of one day thinking about re-election. And as a matter of principle — and my situation is unique, and I

Let me begin by thanking all of you for attending, and thanking Senator Hirono for working with me and my staff, to convene this hearing, and bring these witnesses together. The topic before us, is one I believe of great importance, the need for term limits for members of Congress, so that we can begin

Barack Obama famously advocated term limits both in the United States and across the world. But in this poignant March clip from Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the former first lady shares how fame and fortune changes one’s relationship with fellow citizens over time. Michelle Obama: What Barack and I talk about that we

We all know that Lee Iacocca was the American automobile executive responsible for the development of the Ford Mustang while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then later for steering the Chrysler Corporation away from the rocks as its CEO during the 1980s. But what you might not remember is that Lee