Parliament Quotes
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
My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.
G.A. Henty
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
You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
Anjem Choudary
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit
I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and democratic country but it is only a show. We are losing the effectiveness of democratic institutions like parliament and judiciary. They now are turning into tools for the benefit of a president-ordering system. A democratic government is possible only on a comprehensive democratic base surrounded by the participatory action of ordinary people.
Burhan Sonmez
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
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Bernard Bailyn
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony Blair
Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.
Andrea Leadsom
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
Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.
Theresa May
