Parliament Quotes - Page 11

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

  Jack Layton

  Democrat

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

  John Major

  Conflict, Scottish, Happens

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• When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

  Theresa May

  Giving, Firsts, Boost

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

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• To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Real, Years

  Vladimir Lenin (2017). “The State And Revolution (Annotated)”, p.55, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity

  Douglass North

  Opportunity, Men, Rights

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• When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  People, Political, Voting

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• 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

  Important, Three, Journalism

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841).

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• All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Compassion, Government

  Mark Twain (1960). “Mark Twain and the Government”

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• [The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Rights, America, Null

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• Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain.

  James Otis

  Rights, Law, America

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• Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Democracy, Terror

  "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.

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• 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

  Legislature, Congress, Cases

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• I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

  Louis Armstrong

  Mouths, Statistics, Effective Communication

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

  Rivka Galchen

  Crazy, Leader, Mind

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Men, Support, Political

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• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  A. V. Dicey

  Mean, Law, Principles

  "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

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• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

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• I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

  Helen Clark

  Husband, Thinking, Unnecessary

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• As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

  Mario Monti

  Confidence, Government, Vote

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• There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

  Stephen Harper

  Trust, Government, Law

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• I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Law, Saws, Periods

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• 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

  Revolution, Quiet, Radical

  Edward Heath's speech to Conservative Party Conference (October 10, 1970), as quoted in John Campbell "Edward Heath" (p. 311), 1993.

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• It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Expression, Law

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• The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

  Auberon Waugh

  Holiday, Law, Suffering

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