Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#parliament

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #parliament




We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.


James Buchan


#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.


Saffron Burrows


#assigned #could #history #i #i think

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.


Julia Gillard


#australia #canberra #firm #general #i

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.


Harriet Harman


#forging #four #future #heavily #i

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.


Gwen Ifill


#country #elections #good #good thing #parliamentary

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.


Garry Kasparov


#appointed #because #country #dangers #following

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.


Garry Kasparov


#fall #instructions #just #kremlin #parliament

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.


Garry Kasparov


#media #parliament #political #political life #real

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.


Jack Layton


#criminal #department #government #investigation #minister

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.


Sheryl Sandberg


#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred






back to top