Top 178 Commons Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

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

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government - the executive - has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.

I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.

Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.

Climate change is a global commons problem.

I'm known on the Hill for having respect, I think, on all sides of the House of Commons because I don't buy into treating people poorly.

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

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

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.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

One good outcome of elections is that fresh talent comes into the House of Commons.

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

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.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commons, the social economy. It is all the activity we engage in to create social capital. It doesn't create capital market. Social commons is growing faster than the market place. It is growing faster than the market place. The social commons include any activity that is deeply social and collaborative.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

A rich and diverse commons lowers the cost of living for those who use it. And throughout history, it has been those on low incomes who gain most from the commons.

I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

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

Kris Commons and Scott Brown are key players for Celtic.

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

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

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

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

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

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.

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

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

I am proud our government has passed a law that ensures priority hiring of Veterans, as I advocated for this, and spoke about it in the House of Commons.

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.

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.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.

Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground. All types of commons have imputed monetary value that together comprise a source of social income. As such, the commons reduces economic inequality and insecurity in society.

The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

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

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.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

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

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

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.

It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms on which democracy depends.

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

It is hard for anyone born after 1945 to imagine a world where the oceans - the global commons - are not open for trade and commerce or where freedom of navigation is imperiled.

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