Best Parliament Thoughts
301 Parliament quotes by 232 unique authors
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It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should…
— Pratibha Patil
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Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the…
— Pratibha Patil
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One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
— 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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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws…
— Caleb Cushing
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the…
— Margaret Cavendish
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The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role,…
— Jacques Delors
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Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary…
— Barry Eichengreen
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The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an…
— Arthur Eddington
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I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe the Sharia should…
— Anjem Choudary
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Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.
— Shaukat Aziz
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
— Victor Pinchuk
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The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
— C.S. Lewis
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We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give…
— Joseph Goebbels
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Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy…
— Peter Bichsel
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I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible,…
— Stephen Daldry
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Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.
— Lester Levenson
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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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In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of…
— Joe Hockey
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A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last Parliament.
— Kenneth Clarke
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I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament
— Roy Hattersley
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Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are…
— Vince Cable
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If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —…
— Walter Cronkite
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How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through…
— Nelson Mandela
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The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.
— Winston Churchill
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