Parliament Quotes

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

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.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

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

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

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

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people attacking each other in parliament and stuff.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

Dew depends not on Parliament.

A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

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

We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

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

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

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.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort of preaching policies of - well, very unfriendly policies.

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

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

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

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.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in 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.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.