Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

quote by P.J. O'Rourke
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It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

quote by Henry Addington
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

quote by Bernadette Devlin
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Apology for Her

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Apology for Her
Be rendered by the Bee—
Herself, without a Parliament
Apology for Me.

poem by Emily Dickinson
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

quote by Garry Kasparov
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

quote by Yoweri Museveni
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It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

quote by Franz von Papen
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

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

quote by Norman Tebbit
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Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.

quote by Ron Davies
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

quote by Garry Kasparov
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I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

quote by Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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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.

quote by A.P. Herbert
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

quote by Adam Michnik
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Politics is like a sewage

Politics is like a sewage
and quarrel irrespective of age,
everywhere in the parliament
for their own benefit and profit!

poem by V.K. Kanniappan
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France. A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed!

classic quote by Victor Hugo
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I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

quote by Emma Bonino
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The So Called Honorable

For to cling to power or for need of power on most policies they disagree
Between the Government and their Opposition there's does not seem much difference to me
Those out of power verbally attack those in power that is how it's been for years
Who wins or loses the Election should not be cause for joy or tears.

Who is in or out of power I for one do not care
That they do not bring change to my life for the good I am all too aware
Democracy is the best form of Government by many we are told
But the workings of Parliament has not changed from the long gone days of old.

Of the praises of Democratically Elected Governments many feel happy to sing
But in Parliament that Parliamentarians obliged to vote with their own parties does not seem a democratic thing
And that the Party or Parties elected by the majority of the voters makes decisions for everyone
Is hardly true democracy when all is said and done.

The hierarchy refer to Parliamentarins as the honorable a title he or she for life does keep
But such a title for most Politicians makes the word honor seem cheap
Like dysfunctional adolescents in Parliament every day
Supposed to be honorable men and women behave in a most immature way.

poem by Francis Duggan
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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.

quote by Agnes Macphail
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