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The British version of 'Shit My Dad Says' is really entertaining. — Jeremy Scahill

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes. — David Blunkett

The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that. — Theresa May

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament? — William Wilberforce

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. — James Otis

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards. — William Lane Craig

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier. — Muqtada Al Sadr

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, — Karl Marx

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

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law. — Arthur Scargill

Several countries have also legally reserved seats in parliament specifically for women to ensure that they are represented. — Stephen Orvis

It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament. — Jerome K. Jerome

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

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward. — Stephen Kinzer

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce. — Emma Bonino

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot

The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles — Wayne Wignall

Dew depends not on Parliament. — James Otis

There is no demonstration against Zionism, because even the European Parliament regards such a demonstration as anti-Semitic. — Noam Chomsky

I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security! — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

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

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. — Theresa May

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible. — Dava Sobel

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament ... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing. — Lara Giddings

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for. — Iain Duncan Smith

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media. — Garry Kasparov

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? — Richard Henry Lee

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. — Bernadette Devlin

Parliaments are the great lie of our time. — Konstantin Pobedonostsev

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked. — Jeremy Corbyn

I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about. — Geoff Mulgan

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics. — Pope Francis

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament — Roy Hattersley

Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 — Edward Heath

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. — Henry Addington

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. — Diane Abbott

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men. — Emma Watson

On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament. — John Allen Fraser

Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. — Rivka Galchen

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. — Justin Trudeau

The Iranian revolution of 1906 gave Zoroastrians a seat in the country's parliament. — Gerard Russell

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study. — Kimberley Payne

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

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. — Henry Seymour Conway

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country. — Theresa May

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament. — Jim Henson

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

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates. — Peter Slipper

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out. — Betty Boothroyd

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing, — Junichiro Koizumi

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. — David Steel

Perhaps the only permanent solution would be a more liberal Parliament, but it is beyond my expertise to suggest how we might bring that about. — Ted Chiang

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

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. — Adam Michnik

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. — Franz Von Papen

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. — Paddy Ashdown

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? — John Major

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

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible. — Michael Howard

We've got about as much chance of communing with the dead as we do of sitting in Parliament. — Libba Bray

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. — Thomas Carlyle

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. — Norman Tebbit

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

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities. — Bill Shorten

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. — Duke Of Wellington

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering. — Jeremy Corbyn

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia. — Victor Pinchuk

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament. — John Bercow

I question why the Department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives. — Sheila Fraser

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. — Bernard Bailyn

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

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

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill

Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones. — Marvin Ammori

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament. — Ron Davies

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. — Thomas Hutchinson

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. — David Lange

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation. — Charles Kennedy

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us. — Brian Aldiss

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle. — Georges Pompidou

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security. — Lech Walesa

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. — John Diefenbaker

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes. — Terry Deary

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. — P. J. O'Rourke

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time. — Jeremy Corbyn

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. — Louise Mensch

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. — George Bernard Shaw

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament. — Justin Trudeau

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. — Winston Churchill

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. — William Wilberforce

His Parliament's on fire and his hands are up. — Lana Del Rey