Cabinet government rests on the principle of collective…

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration…

— Walter Bagehot

The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet…

— Charles Kennedy

No matter who uses chemical weapons against people and organisations, the international community must formulate a common policy and find a solution that would…

— Vladimir Putin

The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our…

— Frank Underhill

The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides whose turn…

— Paolo Gentiloni

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental…

— Pope Pius XII

If you are making policies through speeches that are contradicting some of the policy development your colleagues are embarked on, you are destroying collective…

— Dominic Grieve

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their…

— Aysha Taryam

Inevitably, the role of being a backbench Member of Parliament is completely different from being a minister bound by collective responsibility.

— Nicky Morgan

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. In…

— Deborah Stone

Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more…

— Christine Lagarde

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume…

— Javier Solana

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective…

— Stephen Baxter

“Still, among the critics of the concept of collective guilt, Bultmann was one of the few who spoke of a collective responsibility of the…

— Hammann Konrad

“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence…

— Colum McCann