There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match. — Brian Clough Copy Share Image
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon Copy Share Image
It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and… — Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Copy Share Image
[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity.… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst… — John Selden Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
“To be quite honest I would rather have the current incompetent arse clenching pan drop sucking cross dressing incumbent hemorrhoids running the… — Cal Sarwar Copy Share Image
“Why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good look at… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four… — Elsie Wayne Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image