#parliament

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

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#brothers #champion #confident #i #i am

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#elected #election #every #i #parliamentary

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

#body #clear-cut #emergence #expression #gives

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#commission #control #court #destiny #election

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#anti-semitic #blatantly #had #iraq #jews

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#parliament #love

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#country #democratic #east #elected #election

We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today. ↗

— John Monks

#european #goes #important #just #message