Democracy Quote by Winston Churchill

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat…

— Winston Churchill

It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members.…

— Winston Churchill

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider…

— Winston Churchill

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

— Brian Clough

Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes…

— Michael Ignatieff

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I…

— Pierre Trudeau

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

— Henry Channon

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to…

— Jason Kenney

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the…

— Norman Tebbit

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

— Oscar Wilde

I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying…

— Tony Blair

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

— Edward Coke