Parliament Quotes - Page 8

• I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

  Salvador Allende

  Believe, Years, Socialist

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• But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Simple, Voice

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• I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Addresses, Sometimes, Conflict

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

  Nigel Scullion

  Territory, Enough, Squabbles

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• I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

  Martin Schulz

  Vision, Tomorrow, Integration

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.

  Indira Gandhi

  Wall, Party, Taken

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• At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Class, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Wise, Country, Mean

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, People, Democracy

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• Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Agreement, Unions

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• In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be incremental change through Parliament. The UN did this, and failed spectacularly, and while they did, the human rights situation got worse. The dictatorship ignored the UN and international community, making not a single concession. Now we are being told again these Parliaments are new, we should engage with them and if improved they can bring positive change. I don't place any hope in that.

  Zoya Phan

  Rights, Government, Community

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• If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a famine, and you don’t like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.

  Amartya Sen

  Party, Winning, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Mind, Growing

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• In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

  Maurice White

  Music, Thinking, Fire

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• [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Doors, Europe

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• American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

  Roger Ross Williams

  School, Uganda, Reins

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• I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, Uganda, Addresses

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

  Arthur Scargill

  Law, People, Form

  Said in evidence to House of Commons Select Committee on Employment, 2 April 1980, in 'House of Commons Paper no. 462 of Session 1979-80' p. 55

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• There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Kitchen, Academia, Tables

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• Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.

  John Sheridan

  Army, Light, Darkness

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• I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

  Tony Windsor

  Cancer, Two, Smoking

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• And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Police, May

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• There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

  Edward Coke

  Belief, Witchcraft, Has Beens

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• One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men

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• Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hands, Two

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