Parliament Quotes
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Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.
Eddie Griffin
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Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
William Wilberforce
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The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
Robert Walpole
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The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.
Adolf Hitler
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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
Robert Walpole
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Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?
Robert Walpole
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My desire to get here Parliament was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
Betty Boothroyd
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There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.
Nigel Scullion
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The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.
Edward Jenks
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The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.
Edmund Stoiber
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We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
Theresa May
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.
Tony Abbott
