Parliament Quotes

• The first thing that is necessary for economic growth to be boosted is a stable government, a strong majority in the next parliament.

  

  Kyriakos Mitsotakis
  • Growth
  • Majority
  • Parliament

• I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Will
  • Parliament
  • Disobey

• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Reminded
  • Tremble

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

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Nations
  • Procedures
  • Custodians

• The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Empire

• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Politics
  • Class
  • Oppressed

• A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Successful

• It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Law
  • Wish
  • Dragons

• You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Canada
  • Backbone
  • Bananas

• 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.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Wonder
  • Firsts
  • Here

• The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

  

  George Washington
  • Hands
  • Consent
  • Colony

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

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Constitution
  • British
  • Parliament

• Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, and that member of Parliament should be respected.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Decision
  • Member
  • Canadians

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

  

  William Odom
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Terror

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

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • House
  • Parliament
  • Illustration

• After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

  

  William Lilly
  • Quiet
  • Settling
  • Majesty

• It would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow. The taxpayers in the European Union, members of the Parliament of the European Union, will not be in a position to sustain that type of political activity.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Money
  • Difficult
  • European Union

• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • King
  • Authority
  • Precedents

• Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Important
  • Parliament
  • Gallery

• People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

  

  William III of England
  • Outside
  • Indifference
  • Parliament

• I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Substantial

• 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
  • Nature
  • Parliament
  • Reporters

• We want to try to have a productive parliament to focus on issues Canadians care about, ... If there is no significant action in the days ahead, we will have to make our choice.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Action
  • Focus
  • Care

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