Parliament Quotes - Page 16

• I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.

  Enoch Powell

  Queens, Men, Justice

  Speech in Ilford (13 March 1982), from Simon Heffer, "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell", p. 853, 1999.

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• It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

  Brian Aldiss

  Thinking, Goes On, Failing

  Brian Aldiss (2011). “Greybeard”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ideas, House, Prison

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…”, p.4600, e-artnow

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• You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

  Anjem Choudary

  Believe, Men, Playing God

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.

  Walter Cronkite

  War, Light, Government

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• I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

  Roy Hattersley

  Party, Years, Odd

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• A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Depth, Agendas

  "Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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• We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Host

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our time'. But in the past couple of years the national consensus has been eroded and Australians are being encouraged by the polluters and their mates in Parliament to forget it was ever mentioned. It's heartbreaking.

  Tim Winton

  Couple, Past, Australia

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

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• In Afghanistan, there have been a lot of teachers assassinated, schools are being blown up, girls are harassed and in some cases, attacked on their way to school. Even if the girls are able to get an education, they can dream big, they can think about how they want to become a member of parliament because they are now women members of parliament in Afghanistan, nobody is really sure how long everything is going to last.

  Deborah Ellis

  Girl, Dream, Teacher

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be around for them when they graduate. There is no such expectation in Afghanistan. It's all still hope and wanting it but not really sure if it's going to be around.

  Deborah Ellis

  Girl, Dream, Expectations

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

  Sadiq Khan

  Squares, Oxford, Tree

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• Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

  Vince Cable

  Mps, People, Vote

  "Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Running, Long, People

  "Individualism and Economic Order". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 'Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order, April 1947.

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Heart, Men, People

  Oliver Cromwell (1901). “Speeches, 1644-1658”

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• It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

  Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

  Determination, Regret, Long

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• How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Believe, Government, Years

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• There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Yield, Connections

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.203

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• Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Bristol, Members, Assembly

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• I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Depressing, Dark, Found

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Views, Giving, Favour

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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