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Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically. -- Richard Dawkins
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. -- Tony Benn
Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords. -- Charles Kennedy
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. -- Walter Bagehot
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days. -- Clement Attlee
The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it. -- Christopher Monckton
We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one. -- Charles Kennedy
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through. -- Alan Sugar
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. -- Walter Bagehot
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. -- Tom Stoppard
The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords. -- Christopher Gadsden
I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise. -- Jim Knight
I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. -- Ruth Rendell
I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong. -- John Bercow
I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. -- John Major
The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession. -- John Bright
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws. -- Charles Kennedy
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly. -- Frank Field
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days -- Clement Attlee
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family... -- John Boorman
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? -- Thomas Carlyle
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. -- Oscar Wilde
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords! -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary. -- David Lloyd George
The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members. -- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished. -- Neil Kinnock

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