Hole Quote by Crispin Blunt Download Open image “It is my view there is a gaping hole in parliamentary oversight.” — Crispin Blunt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hole Oversight Parliamentary View
Parliamentary obstructionism should be avoided. It is a weapon to be used in the rarest of the rare cases. Parliamentary accountability is as important… — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget… — Sheila Fraser Copy Share Image
And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences...… — James Callaghan Copy Share
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… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The function of parliament is to hold the executive to account. We should never overlook the primacy of parliament. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
Our children and grandchildren need us to close the loopholes in our parliamentary systems that allow prime ministers and elected officials to pad the… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system of checks and balances. The term "parliamentary reform" should not be allowed to cloud the fact that the critics advance a highly pro-executive position that would seek a strong government primarily by undercutting the independence of Congress.” — Thomas O. Sargentich Copy Share
I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging Brexit. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We don't comment on special forces operations. And if you run an operation for a long time as we have here, and in Libya,… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Frankly, everyone knows that Iain Duncan Smith is not making the impact we would all like him to be as our leader and is… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We are in this Alice in Wonderland world where parliament has approved a motion saying: 'notes the government will not deploy U.K. troops in… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
There may be connections between the nearest prison to Oxford these days, HMP Bullingdon, and other institutions of that name. I have yet to… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The private sector complains that some of the agencies set up to advise and assist them in protecting their networks, such as CESG, are… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Turkey is an important strategic partner facing a volatile period. It needs and deserves our support, but that support needs to include our critique… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
“God has no interest in filling the holes within us. Rather, He wishes to eliminate them.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“No hole is deep enough to be unclimbable. Not even the one you dug yourself into. Never give up. On yourself.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
