Parliament Quotes

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You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

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 programme for a parliament.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

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 from distemper.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.