#parliament

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#been #constituency #entered #i #now

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

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#election #english #free #members #only

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

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#direct #mislead #must #parliament #possible

...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

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#being #buildings #i #mind #monument

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#father #first #got #i #mother

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#i #laws #lot #member #parliament

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ↗

— Lord Acton

#discussion #faith #good #good faith #government