Commons Quotes
94 Commons quotes by 73 unique authors
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No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
— Neil Kinnock
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We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are…
— Wangari Maathai
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying…
— Garrett Hardin
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I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company,…
— Denis Fahey
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Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
— Ken Livingstone
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For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons…
— Lawrence Lessig
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When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit…
— Agnes Macphail
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For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
— John Bercow
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I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
— John Bercow
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It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
— John Bercow
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I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected…
— John Bercow
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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a…
— Vince Cable
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I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that…
— John Diefenbaker
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
— Harold MacMillan
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None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing…
— Henry Fielding
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
— Clare Short
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A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a…
— Edward Gibbon
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If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons.…
— Julian Assange
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The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public…
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Commons Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 94 Commons Quotes, led by these top contributors: