Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never…

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…

— Edmund Burke

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

— Klaus Kinkel

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

— Friedrich Schiller

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

— James Francis

If one is in love, he speake the unspeakable do the undo able act the unactable, why because he/ she has been intoxicated by…

— Anonymous

“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.”

— Anonymous

I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like…

— Mark Sanford

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

— Tom Coburn

I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and…

— Tom Coburn

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public…

— Thomas Paine

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

— Caroline Kennedy

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when…

— Barack Obama

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

— Tom Coburn

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want…

— George J. Mitchell

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

— Tim Kaine