Top 113 Westminster Quotes & Sayings

I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen.

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.

I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.

I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I stayed for three or four months.

At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn't matter: it was me, as a brother, doing a reading for my sister and her husband at their wedding, and I wanted to do it right.

We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Brexit cannot be done with the traditional Westminster/Whitehall system as Vote Leave warned repeatedly before 23 June 2016.

Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.

New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

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

I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.

The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet.

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

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 can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.

Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.

My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as we're part of the Westminster system, it's really important to people in Scotland that we get good decisions coming out of Westminster. So we've got a vested interest in being a constructive participant.

When you look at Westminster you think of it as pale, male and stale and I hate that so much.

The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Westminster is no joke. I took some tough classes there. It prepared me for a tough career.