“People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If parliament and government work together in their respective constitutional roles, and respect due processes, we will maximise our chances of making… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a… — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
My party was the only party that opposed the bifurcation of the state in Parliament, and I was suspended from the House… — Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Copy Share Image
No one questions the right of individuals to go to the Central Lobby to explain their views to their own Member of… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
“What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are a few minority governments in Europe, but I think the largest member state would be well-advised to establish a government… — Gunther Oettinger Copy Share Image
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on,… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman… — Purnima Mane Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and… — Arthur Eddington 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
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
“In 1828 the British historian Macaulay dubbed the press gallery in Parliament a ‘fourth estate’ of the realm. Today the news media… — Ian Hargreaves 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
“At the order of the Lord Trustees a parliament is again to be held in Savannah on the 2nd of March, for… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
![“Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our time'. But in the past couple of years the national consensus has been eroded and Australians are being encouraged by the polluters and their mates in Parliament to…” quote by Tim Winton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/694/tim-winton-3739_australia_australia-was-once-a-leader-in-taking-gl_2275333.jpg)
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![“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them…” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/652/george-mason-8435_america_w-hen-the-resolution-of-enslaving-americ_2429550.jpg)
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