#liam

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament. ↗

— Shaukat Aziz

#any #consultation #decision #due #interests

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

#become #characteristics #give #his #influential

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#conference #diplomatic #direct #governments #hague

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#cannot #conferences #congresses #criticism #extent

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. ↗

— Ron Davies

#case #expulsion #first #first of all #i

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. ↗

— John Blair

#bolshevism #dead #dead end #down #end

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. ↗

— Tony Blair

#cannot #circumstances #go #government #i

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#album cover #also #artwork #basis #blake