If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,'… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, there have been a lot of teachers assassinated, schools are being blown up, girls are harassed and in some cases,… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go… — John Amery Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
