Top 1200 Members Of Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.

The wrestling community is a constant; its members are diverse, we are physically located on all corners of the planet, yet we are constantly connected.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I grew up in a mixed-race family in Bristol. My cousin was this white guy who was interested in Parliament, Marc Bolan, Bowie. His friends were football thugs and while I was getting ready for bed, they'd be listening to all that music. When I was older, I'd go to a Jamaican sound system and there were no white people.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.

At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.

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

With the eyes of a warrior, Zelo! I learned so many moves from my older members. I do my upmost to give my best.

Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

Members of the military appear to be on this President's mind only when they serve a purpose. In Trump's case, that's popularity by association.

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

Too bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more.

I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.

Statements in support of radical terror organizations have become the norm for certain left wing members of Congress.

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

I am very proud of our Supreme Court - it is one of the best worldwide. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, we have seen a certain imbalance in the relationship between the judiciary, the parliament and the government. The Supreme Court behaved in an activist way. We have to debate the degree to which such Supreme Court activism is appropriate.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.

We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.