Parliament Quotes · Page 6

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

— Roger Ross Williams

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

— Sam Gyimah

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

— Mark Twain

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

— Lee Hsien Loong

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

— Robert Walpole

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

— Sinead O'Connor

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

— Anna Soubry

Parliament was prorogued to deny Canadians the right to know what happened in the WE scandal.

— Leslyn Lewis

While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are…

— Paul Gillmor

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven…

— John Adams

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party…

— Noreena Hertz

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently…

— Dave Barry

I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve,…

— Theresa May

Singaporeans like Mr. Alfian Sa'at do not deserve to be admonished in Parliament on the basis of a selective reading of their…

— Pritam Singh

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

— Peter Slipper

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and…

— Elliott Abrams

Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are…

— Ban Ki-moon

The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or…

— Henry Lawson

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the…

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members…

— Eric Williams

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the…

— Malcolm Turnbull

You're damn right I'm comfortable, I've worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I've always tried to impress upon people is…

— Mick Hucknall

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists…

— David Lloyd George

I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more…

— Mario Monti

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

— MNEK

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

— Terry Deary

Parliament must not be told adirect untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

— Norman Tebbit

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

— Sharad Pawar

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

— Caroline Lucas

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

— Tony Blair

“Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.”

— Frances Hardinge

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

— Jovenel Moise

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

— Betty Boothroyd

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

— Stephen Harper

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

— Martin Schulz

Parliament must take responsibility for running an independent complaints service for everyone who works there.

— Nick Boles

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

— Theresa May

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

— Arthur Scargill

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of…

— W. Somerset Maugham