Accountability Quote by David Cameron

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

— David Cameron

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until…

— William Hague

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper…

— Larry Siedentop

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at…

— Enrico Letta

Thousands of E.U. law instruments have come onto the U.K. statute book - all without the democratic legitimacy our constitutional traditions expect.

— Suella Braverman

The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass…

— Jordi Cuixart

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

— Lester Levenson

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

— Geoff Mulgan

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at…

— Tony Benn

I would like us to look at best practice in other parliaments around the world, to see if there are other models that would…

— Lindsay Hoyle