Quotes and Sayings About Parliament

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

#Fun #People #Parliament

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
-- Bill Shorten

#Disability #Ends #Parliament

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
-- Clarissa Ward

#Believe #Men #Parliament

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

#Party #Results #Parliament

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

#Revolution #Quiet #Parliament

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
-- Euripides

#Literature #Parliament

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

#Depressing #Dark #Parliament

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

#Today #Parliament #Said

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
-- George Osborne

#Done #Damage #Parliament

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
-- Jack Layton

#Parliament #Democrat

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

#Simple #Cash #Parliament

Dew depends not on Parliament.
-- James Otis

#Dew #Parliament

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

#Legislature #Parliament #Congress

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Past #Men #Parliament

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#Parliament #Property

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

#Law #Saws #Parliament

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
-- John Adams

#Virtue #Parliament #Humankind

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
-- John Bercow

#Careers #Passionate #Parliament

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

#People #House #Parliament

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
-- John Diefenbaker

#Custodians #Parliament #Procedures

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
-- John Diefenbaker

#Canada #Bananas #Parliament

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
-- John Major

#Conflict #Scottish #Parliament

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
-- John Major

#Thinking #Government #Parliament

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

#Soul #Body #Parliament

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

#House #Twenties #Parliament

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
-- Kenneth Clarke

#Europe #Looks #Parliament

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

#Parliament #Wells #Paraphrase

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.
-- Konstantin Pobedonostsev

#Time #Lying #Parliament

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

#Baby #Born #Parliament

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.

#Squares #Digging #Parliament