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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.


Ed Miliband


#central #challenged #dominated #equality #gender

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.


Ed Miliband


#book #dad #everyone #i #parliamentary

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


#been #commission #confidence #each #elected

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.


Mario Monti


#bound #breakup #decisions #deeper #europe

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.


Karl Philipp Moritz


#already #amply #been #else #england

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.


Abbe Pierre


#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.


Michael Todd


#else #felt #going #i #intervening

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.


John Buchanan Robinson


#bank #brought #colonial #community #during

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.


Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa


#both #constitution #constitutional #houses #i

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile






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