125 Quotes by Tom Coburn

Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.

I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.

We must have government that spends less and does less.

Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.

The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?