Quotes About Parliament

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

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members of Parliament are women. But in most countries, including the United States, theres a paucity of women in public office.

As someone who has put my life on hold, my personal life on hold, for Parliament and for public service for over a decade and a half, I really got to a culmination point where I had to make a decision to have more normality in my life, or sacrifice that entirely for a campaign that was going to be all consuming.

Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

Over the centuries, the country has looked on as Parliament has faced historic decisions. Even in the most challenging of times, we have pulled together and put our duty above all else.

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

Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.

I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.

Seiner Funktion nach darf der Abgeordnete kein Zyniker sein, schließt doch Zynismus die Zustimmung zur Zerstörung ein und enthält so eine Absage an den Humanismus, dem sich das Parlament verdankt und den es immer wieder auf den neuesten Stand bringen sollte.

In England,' I told her, 'the whole thing would probably have been settled by a letter to the Times, after which, under pressure from public opinion, Parliament would simply vote the necessary laws for the protection of the African fauna.

Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capable of deploying in its struggle.

Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

England is the mother of Parliaments.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

Are you, or are you not? Have you the taste of your existence, or do you not? Are you within the country or on the border? Are you mortal or immortal? —Parliament of the Birds 'I want a clean cup,' the Hatter interrupted. 'Everyone move one place.' —Alice in Wonderland

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

If the Canadian parliament, say, should declare that in light of evolving social mores, triangles should be regarded as sometimes having four sides, and decree also that anyone who expresses disagreement with this judgment shall be deemed guilty of discriminatory hate speech against four-sided triangles, none of this would change the geometrical facts in the least, but merely cast doubt on the sanity of Canadian parliamentarians.

The brain is a parliament of thoughts since that stay active as an all-time activity to form the system of life in all subjects and dimensions.

Thoughts are the constitution of life, and the mind is the parliament where these take place.