We have to pick up people's issues within and outside Parliament and give a voice to their pain and problems and come… — Sushma Swaraj Copy Share Image
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality.… — Alessandra Mussolini Copy Share Image
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
I must say that, in the first instance, we got the request from many African countries who said, look, you people had… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between… — Peter Costello Copy Share Image
Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament. — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
Only one Member of Parliament left a hospital chemotherapy bed in a wheelchair to vote for the bill that triggered Article 50… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul -… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived… — Robert Atkyns Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From the time I was elected to parliament, I was not voting for the government. I was sure it did not have… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, the country has looked on as Parliament has faced historic decisions. Even in the most challenging of times, we… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government - the executive - has… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Transparency will be at the heart of everything I do - it's what parliament expects, and it's what the public deserves. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
PAP leaders, including Mr. Shanmugam, routinely ask WP MPs to clarify their positions on the spot, in Parliament. WP MPs routinely do… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in… — David Steel Copy Share Image
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I worked as long in a fish and chip shop as I did in Parliament. I've had particular experiences in politics, but… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility… — John Pym Copy Share Image
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
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