Top 1200 Houses Of Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

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

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

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

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

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.

As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

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

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

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

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

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

We have members of Parliament from all over the country, many of whom have a difference of opinion on some issues.

The government's intention is to function, to have debates in Parliament, and to work in the interest of the people.

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

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

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

I am quite proud of being in Parliament, I actually love it.

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

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

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

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

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.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.

I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

As leader of the House, I seek to do exactly that, treating all members of Parliament with courtesy and respect.

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

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

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

Before entering Parliament, I spent my career in the city and in business.

I still cherish the memory of walking into the Parliament for the first time.

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

When a terrorist goes to Parliament Hill, he's looking for the prime minister and his cabinet.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

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.

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.

Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.

Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you think about your own life, there are no memories without place. You are always situated somewhere. I think the imagination - the narrative imagination at least - situates you in a specific space when you start to think of a story. I often use places I know. I put my characters inside rooms and houses that I'm familiar with - sometimes the houses of my parents or grandparents or previous apartments I've lived in.

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

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

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

Transparency will be at the heart of everything I do - it's what parliament expects, and it's what the public deserves.

The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.