A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
I was elected to Parliament as a Conservative three times, most recently in 2017. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
We hit an all-time low - Parliament was at its lowest during the Brexit debates. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
This was an unhappy place to work. I think there has been bullying in parliament. I've never shied away from that. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality.… — Alessandra Mussolini Copy Share Image
Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul -… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer - a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it.… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours… — Vandana Shiva 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
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Pakistan’s foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.” — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Copy Share Image
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