Parliament Quotes
301 quotes by 238 authors
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to…
— Walter Bagehot
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In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to…
— Dave Barry
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
— Tony Blair
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash…
— James Buchan
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I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,…
— John Dickinson
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange…
— Bob Brown
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that…
— Diane Ackerman
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If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
— Richard Henry Lee
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Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is…
— Hermann Goring
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Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
— Jay Weatherill
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
— John Dickinson
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of…
— Noah Webster
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Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's…
— Tim Field
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania,…
— George Mason
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The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was…
— Sheila Fraser
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I question why the Department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.
— Sheila Fraser
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Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the…
— Kevin Rudd
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The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so…
— Kevin Rudd
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