Parliament Quotes

"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."
-Walter Bagehot

"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament."
-Bernadette Devlin

"To date, Kenya lacks an effective livestock marketing policy and it is prudent for the Government to move fast and implement a Livestock Marketing Authority, which was passed in Parliament."
-Adan Dualle

"We would want it to come through the parliament."
-Nicholas Haysom

"Once again he is shunning parliament and is failing to report to the public and publicly elected officials."
-Chaim Ramon

"We have received additional guarantees. I feel quite at ease with defending this in the Dutch Parliament."
-Ben Bot

"Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week."
-Alan Baker

"We have a week more to choose the speaker of the parliament and his two deputies and also to discuss who is going to be the president."
-Jawad Al maliki

"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."
-Adam Michnik

"The government should hold a meeting of all parties immediately before the Parliament session, to explain the background of India's vote at the IAEA meeting on Saturday."
-Prakash Javadekar

"We firmly believe that dialogue about diversity, about representation, about accountability and about checks and balances needs further airing in this parliament."
-Pita Sharples

"I don't think that parliament will find the strength to annul its decision."
-Volodymyr Lytvyn

"I'm going to sit in the last row in parliament, think about things and stay silent, ... I don't have anything -- except for a good mood."
-Joschka Fischer

"I wouldn't make him a toilet cleaner in Parliament House, let alone Leader of the Opposition."
-Mark Latham

"Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition."
-John Wagstaff

"Our first democratic Parliament in history - we are going to take that opportunity to move Scotland forward."
-Alex Salmond

"The best we can ever hope for is to win enough votes in the Palestinian parliament, allowing us to have a minister or two in the government so that we can have our say in the way things are run, particularly in matters of importance to us. In short, we want to become in the Palestinian government what the Orthodox Jews are in the Israeli government."
-Osama Hamdan

"There are attempts to convince the (Shiite) alliance to leave the issue of federalism in other parts of Iraq (apart from the Kurdish north) for the next parliament to deal with, and also to implement it gradually over two or three years, not now."
-Mahmud Othman

"Social attitudes have changed. This would have been inconceivable a decade ago. Now there are more women in Parliament and opposition to smoking goes across the range of age and class."
-John Grogan

"They had first told us to join parliament to discuss the reform proposals and now they want us to come up with a bill in parliament. The onus lies with the government to place the bill in the House."
-Sheikh Hasina

"Making reforms is easy on the pages of a newspaper, but it is not so easy to do in the parliament."
-Franco Bruni

"Parliament will reconvene either on Wednesday or Thursday when possibly a new government will be formed."
-Sanjaasuren Oyun

"We don't want anything special; the only thing we want is the atmosphere and facilities to be educated, We do hope that finally we will have a capable Parliament and they can make facilities for studying."
-Abdul Rahim

"Do they even have anyone who knows how to draft a bill in parliament?"
-Adrien Wing

"This a momentous day; I am excited because this is the first parliament we have had after so many decades."
-Shukria Barakzai

"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

"If national members of parliament are to hold ministers to account they need to know what those ministers decide in Brussels in the name of their country."
-Chris Davies

"We have decided to call for a debate in Parliament."
-Prakash Karat