Quotes and Sayings 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. Herbert -
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
-- Bill Shorten -
You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
-- Clarissa Ward -
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 -
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 Heath -
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
-- Euripides -
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 -
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 Buchan -
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 -
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 Bercow -
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 Diefenbaker -
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
-- John Diefenbaker -
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 -
The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
-- John Selden -
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 Rexroth -
Parliaments are the great lie of our time.
-- Konstantin Pobedonostsev -
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.
