#commons

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

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By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#commonsense #cuts #entitlement #government #make

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#bars #certainly #close #commons #could

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run. ↗

— Vince Cable

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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