Parliament Quotes

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

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.

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.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

I take note of the fact that there are a lot of people who appreciate what I do as parliament president, not just within my Social Democratic party group, but also among the conservatives.

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.

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

Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.

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

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of 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.

With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

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.

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here.

Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority