Quotes of Parliament - somelinesforyou

“ The Senate is never easy,... But when you get a new administration and a new Congress, it gives you sort of an opportunity to take a little time out and see what we can do together. ”

- Trent Lott

“ I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing. ”

- Junichiro Koizumi

“ Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ”

- Gandhi

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

- Walter Bagehot

“ A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper. ”

- John Pym

“ 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? ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament. ”

- Daniel O’Connell

“ Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. ”

- Norman Tebbit

“ Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole… ”

- Edmund Burke

“ You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ Our aim is to nominate the candidate for prime minister to Parliament as soon as possible, vote and form the government team within the coming days. ”

- Viktor Yushchenko

“ Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ This parliament of youth had already achieved a national unity among them, but unfortunately, adults of the Palestinian factions had failed so far to achieve it. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ I look forward working with the new parliament as together we grapple with the pressing challenges of improving the livelihood of our people and developing our nation. ”

- Robert Mugabe

“ I'm going to sit in the last row in parliament, think about things and stay silent,... I don't have anything — except for a good mood. ”

- Joschka Fischer

“ He does not set out to persuade the Commons (parliament) that the British should be invading. ”

- Helen Clark

“ It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ There will be threats... but that would not deter the Afghan people from participating. We will soon have a parliament. ”

- Hamid Karzai

“ 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. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I'm not sure that parliament is all that functional a place. ”

- Paul Martin

“ I have chased Jack Layton around the corridors of this parliament for over a year now. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ I have said all along that this clause is probably contrary to the Geneva Conventions. Parliament should now review its decision and re-amend article 9 of the Military Penal Code. ”

- Helen Keller

“ It is up to the opposition parties to decide either to join or boycott the parliament. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ The president calls on the Congress to take action in the Senate today, to take action now so that tax relief can be enacted into law. ”

- Ari Fleischer

“ I ran for Congress, just once. ”

- Shirley Temple

“ We will be present in the next legislature and all legislatures after that fighting for more funding for UK. ”

- Charles Wells

“ It would really wake up the Congress and Senate. You can't just make laws against people and not expect repercussions. ”

- Charles Merrill
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