Quotes About Politics

Inevitably, the role of being a backbench Member of Parliament is completely different from being a minister bound by collective responsibility.

Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates.

I was the chairman of the IT committee of Parliament for 5 years.

When I go in and talk to students about being a Member of Parliament, I say to them it took me 21 years from joining the Conservative Party as a 16-year-old to being elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in Loughborough. It's a long journey, but the rewards when you get there, the feeling of accomplishment is huge.

I am quite proud of being in Parliament, I actually love it.

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

We must not end up with further division by just reinforcing factions in the party, Parliament or the country.

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.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the brightest and best remain on the backbenches.

I am aware that people at large are constantly angry with the Congress because they feel we are shouting. We are making noise, but there is a very serious reason for it. Parliamentary rules are not being followed.

Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.

Since 1998, I have served my country as a member of four cabinets and as the leader of the parliamentary opposition.

Congress has no vision for U.P. They want to milk U.P. for those 80 parliamentary seats.

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.

It is part and parcel of politics that you forget whatever has happened and move on to the future.

You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.