I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war. — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
We have members of Parliament from all over the country, many of whom have a difference of opinion on some issues. — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? — John Major Copy Share Image
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal,… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
We have to make it clear that one, two or even three BNP MEPs elected to Brussels will have very little effect… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told,… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — 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
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image