Top 1200 Members Of Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

I'd like to begin by thanking the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press for this Golden Globe.

There's a lot that the city can do, and it depends on having a partnership with community members who are living the realities.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.

I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.

PAP leaders, including Mr. Shanmugam, routinely ask WP MPs to clarify their positions on the spot, in Parliament. WP MPs routinely do the same to PAP ministers.

I got an invitation to speak in the European parliament and I met Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the U.N. I took those opportunities to talk about what I thought was right. That those people, who are more important and powerful than I am, think I'm relevant enough to give a speech is mind-blowing.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

The Treaty of Lisbon gave the European parliament a stronger role as co-legislator and the European Council its own president. Furthermore, the treaty introduced checks on subsidiarity - the concept that decisions should be taken as close as possible to the citizens - in an effort to cut back on unnecessary rules and regulations.

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our time'. But in the past couple of years the national consensus has been eroded and Australians are being encouraged by the polluters and their mates in Parliament to forget it was ever mentioned. It's heartbreaking.

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

I would encourage anyone who shares our liberal values in or outside parliament to join our party and join our liberal movement. Our door is absolutely open.

I think they should make Twilight closets and all the cast members can walk out of them.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

I like to watch the TV shows 'The World of the Married' and 'Hangout with Yoo' with the members.

Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects.

I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

It's not common for a group to make a comeback after the members leave for a different agency.

Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans.

As members of Congress, we have to pursue the Congressional Review Act legislation as soon as possible.

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.

I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song.

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

Thanks to all members of the military around the world for giving me the ultimate motivation.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding the extreme ideas that have been gaining ground in the Netherlands for decades.

On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our role in our parliamentary system, we will absolutely point out what we think they should be doing differently. But when it comes to our relationship with the United States, we do speak with one voice.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.

The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

I've known the members of Roman Reigns' family since I was 15 years old.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

I am from L.A., my siblings are from L.A., but both my parents are from Guatemala, and I have a lot of family members from Mexico.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain.

Service members are more likely to have PTSD, but it's common in the general population as well.

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.