This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of… — Marion Kirkland Reid Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I represent 100,000 people in Parliament. I have roughly 500 members in my local association and roughly 60 people on my executive.… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It could be argued that Parliament is an agency of the EU and therefore the theft of our money by our MPs… — David Craig Copy Share Image
Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm… — Ewan McGregor 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
A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament… — John Bright Copy Share Image
In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who… — Maurice White Copy Share Image
More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
But please remember, that in 1991 in the Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image