Parliament Quotes - Page 12

• I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

  Rivka Galchen

  Crazy, Leader, Mind

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  A. V. Dicey

  Mean, Law, Principles

  "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

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• Let sleeping dogs lie.

  Robert Walpole

  Dog, Lying, Sleep

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• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

  William Hague

  People, Decision, Needs

  Foreign policy forum in Berlin, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 23, 2012.

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• 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

  Responsibility, Government, Issues

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

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• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

  Umberto Eco

  Men, Long, Community

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• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gratitude, Art, Acceptance

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Humor, People

  Uncommon Law (1935) "Is it a Free Country?"

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• I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Cutting, Agency, Numbers

  "'The last chance election for Britain'". Speech by the Rt Hon William Hague MP, leader of the Conservative party, to the spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Leader, Alternatives

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 05, 2008.

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• The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Rights, Freedom Of Speech

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• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Media, People

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• Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him.

  Tony Burke

  Trying, Majority, Locks

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• No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got a parliament where a majority of the members of parliament want that law to be changed. He's got a parliament where there's a majority in each House who have publicly said they want to have a Royal Commission into banks.

  Tony Burke

  Mean, Law, House

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.

  Tony Burke

  Country, Should

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• The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Grief, Moving

  "David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.

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• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Responsibility, Power

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, People, Minorities

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• When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

  Theresa May

  Giving, Firsts, Boost

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

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• What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

  John Major

  Conflict, Scottish, Happens

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• Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

  Jack Layton

  Democrat

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• I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work against the institution of which they are members. I would not presume to advise them on what they should or should not do. However, since the UK could not leave the EU fast enough as far as they were concerned, I can imagine that they will not stay any longer than they have to.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Party, Ukip, Independence

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.

  Tony Burke

  Lying, Government, Games

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Men, Letters, Achieve

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