Parliamentary Quotes - Page 3

• The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Democracy, Kashmir, India

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs.

  Peter Costello

  Country, Business, Believe

  "Respect Australian values or leave: Costello". "Lateline" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

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• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  Saffron Burrows

  Thinking, Movement, Unions

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• By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

  Moshe Sharett

  Hands, Majority, Immigration

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• I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.

  Nicky Morgan

  Party, Thinking, Two

  "World At One", www.telegraph.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.

  Chris Christie

  Country, White, Differences

  Chris Christie at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, www.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.

  George Will

  Men, Kentucky, Skills

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• The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

  Francois Furet

  August, Emergencies, Reactions

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• And it's a question of who the parliamentary party thinks is the right person to lead - not just in terms of the negotiations but also the wider 'one nation' agenda that we set out in our manifesto last year and that we were elected on.

  Nicky Morgan

  Party, Thinking, Years

  "World At One", www.telegraph.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

  Gordon Brown

  Party, Thinking, Knows

  "Jeremy Corbyn ignores calls to stand down - how the day unfolded". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2016.

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• Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum.

  David Cameron

  Opportunity, Multiple Choice, Choices

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 24, 2011.

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• We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Parliament, Sovereignty

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• Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

  Martin Schulz

  Decision, Democracy, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

  Donald Evans

  Views, Political, Important

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• I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

  Jim Bolger

  Government, Democracy, Election

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• I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Believe, Government

  Speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in 'The Times' 4 April 1872

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• Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Believe, Democracy

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• There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, Years, Presidential

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

  John Diefenbaker

  Answers, Questioning, Knows

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  Frank Dobson

  Lying, Party, Views

  "The unofficial opposition: furry, fearless and perfectly Frank" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Majority Rule, Numbers, Democracy

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Talking, Unhappy, Tape

  Describing himself, in 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' (1850) 'The Present Time'

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Party, Government

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, August 30, 1848.

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• Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Queens, Thinking, Government

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