House Of Commons Quotes

House Of Commons Quote of the day

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

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

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

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.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

Why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.