Senator Joe Manchin
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Rest in peace.
Let me say to both of you all about what has happened in this political process.
And I've come to the conclusion we need to have term limits.
And I'm going to tell you how I came to that conclusion.
When I was a governor, I was doing a town hall meeting in southern West Virginia.
A little lady got stood up in the back and she said, Joe, I wish you were for term limits.
And I said, well, tell me why, Suze.
I knew her and Susie.
I said, tell me why.
She said, well, I just think this would be, it'd be better for us to have turnover.
And I said, and I wasn't for it.
And I gave her all the reasons.
I said, you're going to lose your most experienced people with a talent and know-how and boom, boom, boom.
I went through everything.
She said, Joe, think of it this way.
If we had term limits, maybe we get one good term out of you.
I had no comeback.
She convinced me right there.
And from that point on, I've been for term limits.
And I'm more for it today than I've ever been for it.