Parliament Quotes
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It’s one thing to go into parliament as part of a team whose words don’t match their actions. It is another thing to have your own political party of like-minded people.
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Okean Elzy
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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
Bella Abzug
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Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith
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My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.
G.A. Henty
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
Thomas Carlyle
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.
Sushil Koirala
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We petitioned to get access to film Suffragette at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.
Sarah Gavron
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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.
Edward Feser
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit
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Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.
Andrea Leadsom
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To the South African parliament: I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
Helen Suzman
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You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
Anjem Choudary
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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.
Theresa May
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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
Evan Davis
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We will and concede for us and all our heirs and successors, by the common counsel, assent and consent of the prelates, magnates, earls and barons and communities of our realm in our parliament that the Kingdom of Scotland, shall remain for ever separate in all respects from the Kingdom of England, in its entirety, free and in peace, without any kind of subjection, servitude, claim or demand.
Edward III of England
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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
