Top 193 Parliamentary Quotes & Sayings

Since 1998, I have served my country as a member of four cabinets and as the leader of the parliamentary opposition.

Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

My work in Ukraine ceased following the country's parliamentary elections in October 2014.

Congress has no vision for U.P. They want to milk U.P. for those 80 parliamentary seats.

Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

It is my view there is a gaping hole in parliamentary oversight.

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.

The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.

I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.

Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political tradition.

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government - the executive - has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

I am disappointed not to receive the endorsement of the Reigate and Banstead Conservative Association's executive council as the Parliamentary candidate at the 2015 General Election.

We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The president must have powers defined under the 1973 constitution, nothing more.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

What a travesty it is that the high priests of Leave in 2016, who insisted to all of us that Brexit would mean a return to parliamentary sovereignty, are undermining and circumventing parliamentary sovereignty in order to deliver their hard Brexit.

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly pursuant to article 22 of the UN Charter, could start initially as a consultative body and gradually develop into a legislative assembly.

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

The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the brightest and best remain on the backbenches.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.

Parliamentary obstructionism should be avoided. It is a weapon to be used in the rarest of the rare cases. Parliamentary accountability is as important as parliamentary debate. Both must coexist.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections