Parliament Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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

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

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.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

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

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

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

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

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.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

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.

I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Dew depends not on Parliament.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.