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  • I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure. -- Michael Foot
  • Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. -- Stockwell Day
  • Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. -- John Blair
  • The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism. -- Ed Miliband
  • Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. -- Lord Acton
  • The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
  • The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. -- Millicent Fawcett
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  • Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill. -- John Ibbitson
  • Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. -- Mary Augusta Ward
  • Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world. -- Karl Marx
  • The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised. -- Ron Davies
  • Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. -- John Bright
  • I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list. -- Adam Rickitt
  • Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. -- Stockwell Day
  • A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly pursuant to article 22 of the UN Charter, could start initially as a consultative body and gradually develop into a legislative assembly. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. -- Khaleda Zia
  • We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. -- David Frum
  • Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will. -- David Blunkett
  • The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority. -- Kate Reardon
  • No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy. -- Nick Clooney
  • Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. -- Walter Bagehot
  • I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me. -- Saffron Burrows
  • It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party. -- Francis Maude
  • My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals. -- Frank Dobson
  • I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues. -- Sharad Pawar
  • The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner. -- Donald Evans
  • Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. -- James Q. Wilson
  • We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. -- James Buchan
  • Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. -- Ferdinand Mount
  • Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt. -- Roger Wicker
  • We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament. -- Hugh Gaitskell
  • Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language. -- Betty Boothroyd
  • The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. -- Francois Furet
  • Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country. -- Gwen Ifill
  • I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. -- Fritz Sauckel
  • When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities. -- Bill Shorten
  • That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning. -- John Diefenbaker
  • The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir. -- Nyla Ali Khan
  • The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. -- H. G. Wells
  • As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him. -- Gordon Brown
  • Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections -- Vladimir Putin
  • If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important. -- John Allen Fraser
  • Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too. -- Martin Schulz
  • The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system. -- John Kasich
  • I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece. -- Yanis Varoufakis
  • It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. -- Wilhelm II
  • I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of UKIP. -- Robert Kilroy-Silk
  • I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party. -- Nicky Morgan
  • I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
  • I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
  • By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. -- Moshe Sharett
  • By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature... -- Adolf Hitler
  • Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed. -- Stanley Baldwin
  • It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law. -- Henry Martyn Robert
  • Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions. -- Jason Kenney
  • Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum. -- Alex Comfort
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