Parliament Quotes
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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
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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
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You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
John G. Diefenbaker
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
William E. Gladstone
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Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
William Odom
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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
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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
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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
H. H. Asquith
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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
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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
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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
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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