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 Copy Share Image
If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it. — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
A truly united Singapore means having a Parliament that reflects all views, and not just the PAP view or the group-think of… — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level,… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human… — Bulent Ecevit Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“At the order of the Lord Trustees a parliament is again to be held in Savannah on the 2nd of March, for… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities. — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved. — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened. — Winnie Ewing Copy Share Image
On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament. — Sushil Koirala Copy Share Image
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