Parliament Quotes

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.