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
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
It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter 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
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
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
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
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
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
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all… — Harold MacMillan 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
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
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
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
When I was an MP, John Prescott barracked me in the House of Commons, shouting: 'Woolly jumper! Woolly jumper!' — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. The… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
