Top 738 Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.
I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
I'm known for wearing tweed jackets, khaki pants and suede shoes. I've only worn a suit in parliament under duress, when I was on the front bench.
Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
Parliament is a tribal place. So the most difficult thing is to be labelled disloyal, even if you think you are standing up for a principle. The rejection is quite strong.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
Our nation needs protection against complete dominance of Parliament by one party, which could allow a tiny number of people to control everything.
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
For the government, there is the frustration of not being a full part of the anti-Isis coalition. For ministers to have their position restrained by our parliament is an embarrassment with their international colleagues.
I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.
You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.
A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.
A truly united Singapore means having a Parliament that reflects all views, and not just the PAP view or the group-think of a single political party.
If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.
In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
I'm not interested in getting a seat in parliament. Only if I feel that I can bring some change to the lives of people in Pakistan, I might consider joining a party.
Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget bill, where there was no thoughtful debate or scrutiny of the legislation.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.
It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.
When I was pregnant during my time in Parliament, I was frequently asked by the media how I would manage being an MP and a mum, as if the two are somehow mutually exclusive.
I am standing in solidarity with decent Remain voters who respected the rules and accepted the result and are as appalled by Parliament's undemocratic antics as the most ardent Brexiteer.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.
A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
We have to pick up people's issues within and outside Parliament and give a voice to their pain and problems and come across as a party which understands this.
We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
I think it's been lovely the way people have been really supportive in parliament of my pregnancy.
That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.
I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.
In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.
No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
I've been very, very busy with my commitment to my constituency and to Parliament. So, I don't really have time to work in films.
