Parliamentary Quotes
Parliamentary Quote of the day
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.
Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.
If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.
The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.
Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.
It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.
It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.
I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of Ukip.
Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.
Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
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 lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
