quotes about Parliament
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : Uncommon Law (1935) "Is it a Free Country?"
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When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
-- Bill ShortenSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
-- Clarissa WardSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.
-- Edmund Stoiber -
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament
-- Edward HeathSource : Edward Heath's speech to Conservative Party Conference (October 10, 1970), as quoted in John Campbell "Edward Heath" (p. 311), 1993.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.
-- George Brandis -
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I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
-- George Osborne -
Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
-- Jack Layton -
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
-- James BuchanSource : "Judgment Day... again" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.
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Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
-- James Otis -
In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
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We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
-- John Adams -
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
-- John BercowSource : Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
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I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.
-- John Bercow -
Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
-- John DiefenbakerSource : John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade
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You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
-- John Major -
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
-- John Major -
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.
-- John Pym -
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The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
-- John SeldenSource : John Selden (1716). “Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].”, p.26
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I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
-- Kenneth Clarke -
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.
-- Kenneth RexrothSource : Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.120, New Directions Publishing
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Parliaments are the great lie of our time.
-- Konstantin Pobedonostsev -
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I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.
-- Lucy Powell -
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.
-- Mike Todd, Jr. -
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
-- Norman Tebbit -
I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.
-- Peter Slipper -
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There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.
-- Preston ManningSource : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
-- Robert Walpole -
I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.
-- Sonia Gandhi -
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It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
-- Vijay Mallya -
One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.
-- Walter Bagehot -
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
-- William Butler Yeats -
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleySource : "Famous sayings and their authors". Book by Edward Latham, 1906.
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
-- William Eldridge OdomSource : "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.
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Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
-- William Wilberforce -
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The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.
-- Winnie Ewing -
I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.
-- Martin Schulz -
There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.
-- Nigel Scullion -
American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.
-- Roger Ross Williams -
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We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.
-- Tony Burke -
I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.
-- Robin CookSource : "Dull epitaphs: R.I.P" by Henrietta Clancy, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2007.
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I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
-- H. H. Asquith -
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We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.
-- Hugh Gaitskell -
England is the Mother of Parliaments
-- John BrightSource : Speech, Birmingham, England, 18 Jan. 1865
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The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.
-- Lord Randolph Churchill