Parliament Quotes · Page 6

We hit an all-time low - Parliament was at its lowest during the Brexit debates.

— Lindsay Hoyle

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

— Walter Bagehot

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

— Angela Rayner

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

— Rivka Galchen

There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country.

— Arun Jaitley

I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination.

— Subramanian Swamy

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

I've been working to see that mental health is raised in both oral and written question sessions in parliament.

— Luciana Berger

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress…

— Vladimir Lenin

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of…

— Sri Aurobindo

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square?…

— Sadiq Khan

Parliament is a tribal place. So the most difficult thing is to be labelled disloyal, even if you think you are standing…

— Sam Gyimah

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

— Henry Seymour Conway

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is…

— John MacLachlan Gray

“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected…

— Geoff Mulgan

Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring…

— Scott Morrison

My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as…

— Kevin Rudd

Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got…

— Barack Obama

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by…

— George Bernard Shaw

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said,…

— Jacques Parizeau

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I am very proud of our Supreme Court - it is one of the best worldwide. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, we have…

— Ayelet Shaked

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

— Garry Kasparov

On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

— Sushil Koirala

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.

— Winnie Ewing

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

— Lord Acton

As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

— Carles Puigdemont

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act…

— A. P. Herbert

We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament.

— Arvind Kejriwal

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

— Aristophanes

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

— Bill Shorten

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

— Anonymous

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

— Lester Levenson

Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing.

— Nicky Morgan

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

— Vladimir Putin

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

— Bernadette Devlin