Parliament Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Cutting, People, Support

  "How Many Ministers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?". "The People's Authoritarian Party" with Lee Hsien Loong and Denise Phua, www.theonlinecitizen.com. October 1, 2001.

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• You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

  John Diefenbaker

  Canada, Bananas, Backbone

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• Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Winning, May, Today

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

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• The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

  Francois Truffaut

  Men, Thinking, Political

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• We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Ought

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• Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hands, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

  Edward Coke

  Belief, Witchcraft, Has Beens

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• My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

  Jacques Delors

  Should Have, Europe, Political

  "Delors: Inside the House that Jacques Built". Book by Charles Grant, 1994.

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• [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Doors, Europe

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

  Bill Shorten

  Disability, Ends, Secretary

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

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• An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Mind, Growing

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• One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men

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• No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Giving, Deeds

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• Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Anxiety, Events, Care

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Rivers, House, Sitting Down

  In Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 163

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• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  Ian Mckellen

  Writing, People, Trying

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• In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be incremental change through Parliament. The UN did this, and failed spectacularly, and while they did, the human rights situation got worse. The dictatorship ignored the UN and international community, making not a single concession. Now we are being told again these Parliaments are new, we should engage with them and if improved they can bring positive change. I don't place any hope in that.

  Zoya Phan

  Rights, Government, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Not everyone voted for me, but the fact that we have so far approximately 32 seats in the 50 seat parliament demonstrates the enthusiasm and the faith and the trust the Fijian people have had for both the track record of my government and FijiFirst manifesto.

  Frank Bainimarama

  Government, People, Track

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

  Winnie Ewing

  March, Scottish

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• Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?

  James Maxton

  Country, Children, Men

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• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

  Flann O'Brien

  Jobs, Majority, Politician

  Flann O'Brien (1989). “The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'”

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• Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Opportunity, Government

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