Parliament Quotes · Page 5

We have members of Parliament from all over the country, many of whom have a difference of opinion on some issues.

— Andrew Scheer

“After the elections, voters are never given an applause.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates.

— Clive Lewis

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

— Jeremy Corbyn

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

— Pierre Trudeau

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

— John Major

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

— Benjamin Disraeli

At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.

— Clive Lewis

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City…

— William E. Gladstone

I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that…

— George Brandis

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given…

— Flann O'Brien

I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has…

— George Bernard Shaw

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.

— Charles Kennedy

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President…

— Bella Abzug

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived…

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he…

— Walter Bagehot

I must say that, in the first instance, we got the request from many African countries who said, look, you people had…

— Thabo Mbeki

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

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

— Eric Williams

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

— Henry Lawson

I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big…

— Caitlin Moran

There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may…

— Josiah Wedgwood

I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result…

— William Cobbett

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

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

— Norman Tebbit

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

— Ayelet Shaked

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.

— Anonymous

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

— William Wilberforce

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

— Jay Weatherill

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

— Theresa May

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

— Anthony Bourdain

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

— Hugh Gaitskell

Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn't now.

— Ann Widdecombe

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg