Our mummies do not need pyramids. They have The Parliament.

aphorism by Vasil Tolevski, translated by Dan Costinaş
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In Democracy People Are Supreme

In democracy people are supreme
People elected their representatives
And sent to parliament to make laws
On behalf of them.

To make democracy a success
Endemic protest is necessary
To make the representatives in order
They should cautioned.

People are the soul of parliament
Parliament can change but not people
People are the root parliament is foot.

Come to the people O parliamentarian
O representatives of people
People are your master
You are there in different posts to
Serve the people and to do all welfare works.

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poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

quote by Margaret Cavendish
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The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

quote by Robert Walpole
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Fighting foxes
For corpses in graveyard
Their parliament

haiku by Sathya Narayana
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Ersatz peace

Prime Minister Netanyahu
Present Knesset, Likud Jew
Said Jews have duel capitals:
Jerusalem with armed control
And the city of Tel Aviv.
Who is this ruler called “Bibi”
Who rejects the peace summit talks?
With his constant thwarting and balks
And a recent turn of events
By slating sixteen settlements
On the Palestinians land.
Too long has he the upper hand:
A status quo that rules the day
Not sanctioned by the USA.
Will there be a Palestine state
In this conquered real estate?
The chances are now nil to slim
Due to Israeli Jews like him.

poem by Albert Ahearn
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crowds
should not hold to ransom
a nation’s Parliament

senryu by John Celes
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

quote by Garry Kasparov
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Corruption Bill

Parliament enacts
The Anticorruption Bill.
Prisoners make fence

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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You cannot make people honest by an act of parliament.

English proverbs
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Money is more eloquent that a dozen members of parliament.

Danish proverbs
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

quote by Walter Bagehot
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I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

quote by George Stephenson
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Times of the Parliament

In times of viral idiosyncrasy bloating
The plumes and dowry groveling to puncture
The birth of impassable interpolations
Esoteric from the cinders of my vision,
Their croons hum a lilt in a lazy melody
A euphonious resonating in the chambers
Eloquently caroming in complacent synergy
As I reckon the lucidity of the sun's sapid
Streaks in the somnolent floor to harry
The destitution that visited their truancy
Hallow is the gloriole of the exonerated malady
In times where the parliament go astray
In the inert moseying in apache stance
Goblets circling like emancipated doves
And we watched it with the constant sways
Of the pendulums hoarse flight of eddies
Overwhelming the velocity, the blithe cacophony
That coiled into downtrodden harmony
In times where the parliament swing differently
The innuendos aggravate the salient disparity

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poem by Norman Santos
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

quote by Bernadette Devlin
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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

quote by Robert Walpole
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

quote by Jack Layton
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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

quote by Stephen Harper
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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

quote by Peter Lynch
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