Top 1200 Members Of Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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

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

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

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

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

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

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

I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with you. So many distinguished members of our services, and that's really what you are, very, very highly distinguished members.

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

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

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

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

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

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.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

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.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

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

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

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

When I begin to feel tired and do not want to work anymore, I see my members next to me working so hard without taking a break. When I see the members like that, I end up thinking a lot. Because we can see each other grow and hold each other accountable, we all improve together.

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

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

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

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

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

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

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.

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.

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

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

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

No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.

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

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

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.

Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.

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

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

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

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

In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.

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

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

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

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

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

You don't have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging Brexit.

I think there's some generational difference between some of the older members of the press and this younger president [Bill Clinton]. I think the older members are not quite on the same wave length, and in general. I think it's been very devastating to the president.

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

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

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

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