Top 1200 Members Of Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.

When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

When Cameron said to me 'you're a dinosaur,' several people in Parliament said to me 'you're trendin', Dennis, you're trendin' - and I didn't know what it meant. I know now what it is.

Members of Congress are somewhat reluctant to tangle with a president who seems to have the backing of the American people.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.

We have a responsibility not just as atheletes, but as members of society to treat people well. To do things the right way.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Most super PACs are a money-laundering operation that exists solely to enrich the members or its founders.

My party was the only party that opposed the bifurcation of the state in Parliament, and I was suspended from the House along with the other MP from my party. TDP supported and voted for bifurcation, as did the Congress and BJP. Every party barring mine voted.

TVXQ has always chased after different music styles, and their members all have very strong talents.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.

It's incumbent upon all members of Congress to support legislation that keeps us safe at home and abroad.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.

From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.

I do a film only when I feel I will be comfortable with the set-up and other members of the team.

Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

On their 20th album together, Melvins' members still know how to throw their weight around.

From Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast, China dangles lavish, low-interest loans and sophisticated weapons systems as bait. It then uses its 'weapons of mass construction,' a huge army of engineers and labourers, to build everything from roads and dams to parliament buildings and palaces.

Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came about because of the severity of the country's problems and the resulting high proportion of women in the parliament and among professional caregivers, which had a positive effect on policy.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.

At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

Any members of the IIluminati, feel free to come on my podcast. I'm not scared of it, I'd like to know more.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

The BJP members and their leadership have realized that the Bahujan Samaj Party's policies are not anti-upper caste.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

If I end up showering first, I shower really quickly for the sake of the other tired members.

If other members of the Hindi film fraternity are doing aggressive promotional campaigns, then I can do the same.

If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are part of a cozy conspiracy of silence. There are innumerable instances of how politicians as a class let each other off the hook after kicking up some dust in parliament.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.

Typically, members of Congress don't just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not.

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

I really don't have time at the moment for coalition debates. The voters will decide what the next parliament will look like. Those who wish to form a coalition with The Social Democrats can take a look at our platform and then they are more than welcome to talk to us.

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.