Parliament Quotes - Page 2

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

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.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

Dew depends not on Parliament.

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.