#commons

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#country #given #hard #house #lives

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

#colonies #commons #hold #house #lords

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#commons #freedom #ruin

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#being #commons #enjoys #help #house

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#asked #came #come #commons #doing

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#commonsense #cuts #entitlement #government #make

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#difficulty #getting #government #honest #honest truth

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attendance #commons #his #house #man

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#bars #certainly #close #commons #could