Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Inevitably, the role of being a backbench Member of Parliament is completely different from being a minister bound by collective responsibility. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
If we want a Parliament that understands people's lives when it takes decisions, it needs to be representative of society, which includes… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
I opposed the NMP scheme very, very strongly and I stated my case in Parliament, objected to it and voted against it.… — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
One point leavers and remainers agree on is that if there had never been a referendum, and this deal had been proposed… — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of… — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
You're damn right I'm comfortable, I've worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I've always tried to impress upon people is… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle… — Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Copy Share Image
Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out,… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is… — Sheila Fraser Copy Share Image
In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
