Parliament Quotes - Page 6

• Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.

  Simon Schama

  Kings, Military, War

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• The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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• It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Government, Majority

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• The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.

  Edmund Stoiber

  Party, Results, Great Party

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• The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

  P. T. Barnum

  Eye, Men, Wool

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Russia, Media

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• The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

  Jacques Delors

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

  Sheila Fraser

  Dark, Gun, Issues

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• The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

  Bob Brown

  Ambition, Champion, Economics

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• This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Zero, Europe, Voice

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• When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Giving, Interesting, Want

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• The longer the title, the less important the job.

  George McGovern

  Jobs, Work, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  George Osborne

  Damage Is Done, Importance, Crisis

  "George Osborne ordered to repay £1,666 in MPs' expenses" by Andrew Sparrow and Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.

  Donny Osmond

  Mother, Growing Up, Railroads

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• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  Donny Osmond

  Player, Artist, Wind

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• I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

  Lucy Powell

  Baby, Born, Stills

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• The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Land, Community, Special

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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

  Richard Henry Lee

  4th Of July, Nineteen, May

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• Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.

  John Dickinson

  Kings, Taken, Rights

  John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.262, Applewood Books

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• The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Boys, Political

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• Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Addresses, Lines

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• I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

  Sheila Fraser

  Alternatives, Cost, Watches

  "Ottawa hid huge costs of gun plan, audit finds". www.theglobeandmail.com. December 4, 2002.

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• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Believe, People

  "Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.

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• The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Thinking, Election

  "Of the Social Contract".

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