Parliament Quotes · Page 3

I love Parliament Funkadelic.

— Eddie Griffin

The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.

— Ayelet Shaked

The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

— Mark Walport

We must not end up with further division by just reinforcing factions in the party, Parliament or the country.

— Penny Mordaunt

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

— John Major

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

“Pakistan’s foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.”

— Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.

— CS Lewis

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

— David Blunkett

Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.

— Victor Banerjee

“Politics is a matter of desires and personal feelings or emotions, only parliament tries to bring reason into the state.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European…

— William Hague

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come…

— Vince Cable

Having served as a member of parliament for more than two decades, I'm well aware that there can be genuine constraints that…

— Ann Widdecombe

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being…

— Louise Mensch

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support.…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the…

— Thomas Hutchinson

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence…

— Preston Manning

Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and…

— Eleanor Smeal

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…

— John Dickinson

The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change…

— Nelson Mandela

I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians.…

— Jean Chretien

Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring…

— Scott Morrison

Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got…

— Barack Obama

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by…

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension…

— George Bernard Shaw

We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours…

— Vandana Shiva

Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you…

— Gary Snyder

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,…

— Hermann Goring

People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

— Irvine Welsh

Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.

— Andrea Leadsom

In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.

— Horst Seehofer

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

— Karl Kraus

I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

— Muqtada al Sadr

I was elected to Parliament as a Conservative three times, most recently in 2017.

— Nick Boles

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

— Rivka Galchen

We never said that we don't have faith in Parliament. We have great respect for Parliament.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

— Peter Lynch

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

— Yoweri Museveni