Parliament Quotes · Page 8

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

— Aneurin Bevan

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

— Franz von Papen

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

— Jack Layton

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

— Kenneth Clarke

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

— Theresa May

Parliament must take responsibility for running an independent complaints service for everyone who works there.

— Nick Boles

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

— Martin Schulz

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

— Arthur Scargill

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

— Vladimir Lenin

We have to make it clear that one, two or even three BNP MEPs elected to Brussels will have very little effect…

— Steve Blake

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is…

— Stephen Harper

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

— John Major

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.…

— Oliver Cromwell

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

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply…

— David Blunkett

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when…

— Winston Churchill

Schulz told lies in German, and it's unfortunate someone can speak German in this house, but it is our responsibility to stand…

— Uri Orbach

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to…

— Hermann Goring

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness…

— Leon Trotsky

No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got…

— Tony Burke

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than…

— Bertrand Russell

“What is politics without a bit of controversy? The main reason we watch parliament is that we enjoy the clash of bombastic…

— Paballo Seipei

There should be some other provisions in the Constitution whereby if the Government is not functioning well, it can be dealt with.…

— Nawaz Sharif

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.”

— Frances Hardinge

Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.

— Liz Truss

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

— Stephen Harper

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

— Jovenel Moise

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

— Betty Boothroyd

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.

— Elizabeth May

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

— Terry Deary

Parliament must not be told adirect untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

— Norman Tebbit

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

— Lee Hsien Loong

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

— MNEK

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

— Sharad Pawar

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

— Tony Blair

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

— Caroline Lucas

Parliament was prorogued to deny Canadians the right to know what happened in the WE scandal.

— Leslyn Lewis