Parliamentary System Quotes:

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

- Khaleda Zia

topic: Patience, Practice, Impossible, Parliamentary, Parliamentary System

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

- Stockwell Day

topic: Challenges, Activism, Judicial, Judicial Activism, Parliamentary

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

- Stockwell Day

topic: Empires, Canada, Cabinets, British Empire, Parliamentary System

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

- David Frum

topic: Decision, Leader, Conservative, Parliamentary System

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

- John Bright

source: John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

topic: Men, Special, Majority, Parliamentary System

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

- Mary Augusta Ward

topic: Real, Women, Government, Parliamentary, Parliamentary System

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

- John Kasich

topic: Government, Kind, Republican, Parliamentary System

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims

- James Q. Wilson

topic: Struggle, People, Empowering, Parliamentary, Parliamentary System

The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Ideas, Crazy Ideas, Parliamentary

The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why they were fighting us, and we have ignored it. Mrs. Clinton has ignored it, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama. The idea that they're attacking us because of our culture is insane. We are now waging a war against them culturally. We're trying to impose democracy, women's rights, parliamentary systems on a people who don't want it. They're going to fight that.

- Michael Scheuer

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: War, Fighting, Ideas, Attacking Us, Parliamentary

If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the last five years. So they're willing to go to almost any extent to do that. That's unusual, in fact I think it's unique in the history of modern parliamentary systems. And it's very dangerous for the country and for the world.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Lying, Unique, Last Five Years, Parliamentary System

Oswald Mosley`s movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of government in Britain with a government that was based on business interests, that was based on the idea that business interests were the real interests of that country and business interests. and reorganizing the government to serve business interests, that would be a way to get stuff done faster and more efficiently.

- Rachel Maddow

topic: Country, Real, Ideas, Systems Of Government, Parliamentary System