Best Parliament Sayings
301 Parliament quotes by 232 unique authors
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I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the…
— Edward Heath
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It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of…
— Auberon Waugh
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A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul…
— Unknown Author
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I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the…
— Daniel O'Connell
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[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will…
— Unknown Author
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I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.
— Peter Slipper
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I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
— Emma Bonino
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
— Bernadette Devlin
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon…
— Abbe Pierre
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
— Bernadette Devlin
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I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage.…
— Louise Mensch
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I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the…
— Louise Mensch
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I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never…
— Louise Mensch
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I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
— Kenneth Clarke
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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
— Norman Tebbit
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If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all…
— Pauline Hanson
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Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up…
— Eleanor Smeal
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The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the…
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public…
— Jose Ramos-Horta
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Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them…
— Gary Snyder
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But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair…
— Rory Bremner
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.
— Martha Gellhorn
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