Top 738 Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.
When a terrorist goes to Parliament Hill, he's looking for the prime minister and his cabinet.
I really think a minority Parliament delivers better democracy in Canada when parties are prepared to cooperate.
I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.
American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.
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.
As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.
Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.
I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.
I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.
We have members of Parliament from all over the country, many of whom have a difference of opinion on some issues.
One can dismiss the Prime Minister of India most easily. All that is necessary is for Parliament to pass a vote of no-confidence.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that.
We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.
At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.
You don't have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging Brexit.
No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.
We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.
Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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.
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
As leader of the House, I seek to do exactly that, treating all members of Parliament with courtesy and respect.
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
