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Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. -- Matthew Parris
An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee. -- Tony Benn
The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs. -- Narendra Modi
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP. -- Nandan Nilekani
Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay. -- Tony Blair
Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner. -- Michel Martelly
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London. -- Cynthia Payne
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster. -- Ken Livingstone
Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can... -- Narendra Modi
Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it. -- Sarah Wollaston
Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is. -- David Penhaligon
I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament. -- David Steel
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is not a scheme that can be run by money. This scheme has to run with people's participation under the guidance of the MPs. -- Narendra Modi
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer? -- Diane Abbott
Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is Parliament that is failing to provide good value for money. -- Margaret Hodge
Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP. -- Terry Pratchett
I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support. -- Janis Karpinski
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult. -- Mark Thomas
We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious. -- Antonis Samaras
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. -- Jeffrey Archer
I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does. -- Nick Clegg
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. -- Vinnie Jones
Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. -- Andy Zaltzman
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. -- Louis de Bernieres
Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country. -- David Cameron
Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite. As leader it is my continued commitment to dedicate our party's activity to that goal. -- Wes Streeting
I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment. -- David Blunkett
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate. -- David Blunkett
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to. -- W.S. Gilbert
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law. -- Heather Brooke
People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves. -- Theresa May
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. -- Lucy Powell

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