Parliament famous quotes

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

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
-- Norman Tebbit

#Parliament #Direct #Mislead

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.
-- Peter Slipper

#Sides #Parliament #Committed

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 Manning

#Community #Parliament #Given

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#Democracy #Election #Parliament

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
-- Robert Walpole

#Parliament #Expenses

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.
-- Sonia Gandhi

#Thinking #Done #Parliament

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Parliament #Honorable #Persist

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

#Accountability #Needs #Parliament

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.
-- Walter Bagehot

#Men #Parliament

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
-- William Butler Yeats

#Passionate #Conviction #Parliament

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#England #Parliament #Ruined

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
-- William E. Gladstone

#Constitution #Parliament #British

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
-- William Eldridge Odom

#War #Democracy #Parliament

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
-- William Wilberforce

#Parliament #Serving God

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.
-- Winnie Ewing

#March #Scottish #Parliament

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

#Vision #Tomorrow #Parliament

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.
-- Nigel Scullion

#Territory #Enough #Parliament

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.
-- Roger Ross Williams

#School #Uganda #Parliament

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

#Country #Parliament #Should

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.
-- Robin Cook

#War #May #Parliament

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 Allende

#Believe #Years #Parliament

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Illustration #House #Parliament

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.
-- Hugh Gaitskell

#Parliament #Sovereignty #Parliamentary

England is the Mother of Parliaments
-- John Bright

#Mother #England #Parliament

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

#Class #Burden #Parliament