Parliament Quotes

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A

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.

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

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of 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.

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

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.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

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.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

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.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

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

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

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

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

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