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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something. — Beck

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life ... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. — Robert Genn

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us. — Winston S. Churchill

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons. — Neil Kinnock

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. — Anne Enright

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage. — Richard Watson Gilder

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match. — Brian Clough

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95! — Kinky Friedman

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them
are ruinous! — William Dean Howells

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde

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

International that had been parked nose-out in the alley beside the five-and-dime. — Stephen King

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert — H. H. Asquith

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston S. Churchill

It's easy to demonize from a distance. — Rick Warren

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn

I have always been a House of Commons man. — John Diefenbaker

It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends. — Frederick Lenz

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm. — Winston S. Churchill

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. — Winston Churchill

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am. — Linda Evans

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give. — Stacey Thacker

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice. — Claire Tomalin

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons. — Norman Tebbit

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that. — John Bercow

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. — Benjamin Disraeli

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest. — Harold Macmillan

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. — John Bercow

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place. — Charles Kennedy

Next time he summons me like a half-asred squirrel demon," I said,"I'll tell him so! — Rainbow Rowell

Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day. — Neel Mukherjee

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. — Edward Heath

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons. — John Turner

He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable... — Robert Robinson

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. — Albert Bushnell Hart

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon