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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace. -- Yoweri Museveni
At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing. -- Lara Giddings
Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament. -- Ron Davies
I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. -- Justin Trudeau
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In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end. -- Elliott Abrams
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws. -- Jacques Delors
It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities. -- Charles Kennedy
I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance. -- Ron Davies
I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows. -- John Bercow
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. -- John Amery
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion. -- Fredrik Bajer
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. -- William Hague
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament. -- Mario Monti
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country. -- Joseph Hume
Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament? -- Robert Walpole
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. -- Walter Bagehot
I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards. -- William Lane Craig
There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament. -- Preston Manning
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament. -- Edmund Burke

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