#parliament

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

#decision #forward #free #go #government

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

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

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

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

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

#compose #determine #differences #doors #families

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#away #concerned #divorce #i #into

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#cannot #defined #democracy #elections #existence

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash