Parliament Quotes
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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.
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I very much hope that today's decision will be in effect for just a short period. I hope ... we will be able to bring a new government to parliament for approval as quickly as possible.
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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.
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Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
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I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.
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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.
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I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.
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Shortly after the elections, Putin went so far as to inform us that Parliament was a place not for debate, but for legislative tidying up. He was pleased that the new Duma would not be given to debating.
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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
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I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.
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This is a good decision by the European Parliament to reduce the number of permits traded and is an important step forward for climate change policy.
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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.
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There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.
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It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women in parliament who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
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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?
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I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will then move very swiftly to implement the will of the people.
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We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
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The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.
