One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
We must not end up with further division by just reinforcing factions in the party, Parliament or the country. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
It's not often people see a three stone tortoise walking around Parliament. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
This was an unhappy place to work. I think there has been bullying in parliament. I've never shied away from that. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Aska is going to create history and show the way to the entire country by sending a member of women SHG to… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,'… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the… — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal,… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers.… — Enrico Letta Copy Share Image
We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told,… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
The internet makes information easier to come by, but harder to control - think of the success of blogs like ConservativeHome and… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pakistan’s foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.” — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Copy Share Image
The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
I came into parliament to do things, so I don't particularly relish being a rebel. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria. — Horst Seehofer Copy Share Image
Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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