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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
