Parliament Quotes · Page 2

Dew depends not on Parliament.

— James Otis

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

— Konstantin Pobedonostsev

I didn't know when Parliament started to pay my wages.

— Dennis Skinner

We've got a great security team in Parliament.

— Lindsay Hoyle

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

— William Wilberforce

Unanimous votes are rare in parliament.

— Clive Lewis

Parliament alone is sovereign.

— Gina Miller

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

— Edward Coke

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

— Richard Henry Lee

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

— Sonia Gandhi

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

— Tan Cheng Bock

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

— H. H. Asquith

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

— Robin Cook

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

— Garry Kasparov

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

— John Rhys-Davies

We have members of Parliament from all over the country, many of whom have a difference of opinion on some issues.

— Andrew Scheer

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility…

— Pratibha Patil

Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort…

— Angela Merkel

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves…

— Peter Bichsel

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it…

— David Lange

You don't have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging…

— Priti Patel

The government's intention is to function, to have debates in Parliament, and to work in the interest of the people.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

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

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted…

— Vladimir Putin

When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William…

— George Mason

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I…

— Donny Osmond

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds,…

— Jenny Shipley

I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe…

— Anjem Choudary

There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of…

— Thomas Paine

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to…

— Enoch Powell

In Parliament, you need to ensure that there is a diverse and well-rounded group of individuals who are coming together to speak…

— Nicole Seah

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid…

— Joseph Goebbels

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there…

— Anonymous

...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform…

— Patrick O'Brian

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew…

— William Kentridge

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,…

— John Milton

The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the…

— Edward Jenks

How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and…

— Nelson Mandela

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

— George Bernard Shaw

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine…

— Diane Ackerman