Parliament Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Following Instructions, People

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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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• For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

  Bob Brown

  Democracy, Earth, Action

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

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• Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, Responsibility, Successful

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• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  Caleb Cushing

  Kings, Europe, Law

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

  Victor Pinchuk

  Russia, People, Want

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.

  Stephen Daldry

  Thinking, Soldier, Roles

  "Exclusive: Director Stephen Daldry Interview THE READER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
  may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Cutting, Views

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• Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough in the forthcoming Dutch elections to hold the balance of power in that country's parliament. But it is the widespread Jew-baiting that best reveals that Europeans are evidently incapable of learning from their history. France is the outright prizewinner where anti-Semitism is concerned.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Country, Balance, Done

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• Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Boys, Would Be

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• Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Views, Europe

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• The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Government, Appreciate, Support

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• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

  Rory Bremner

  Country, Sorry, War

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• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• 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

  Years, People, Reform

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• Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

  John Milton

  Life, Daughter, Father

  John Milton (1822). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...”, p.216

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Passion, Men

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