#parliament

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#dictatorship #heart #house #king #least

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#country #democratic #east #elected #election

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

#i #laws #lot #member #parliament

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#committed #how #i #i am #improve

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#humility #kitchen #kitchen-table #parliament #philosophical

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

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

#already #appeal #been #conversion #converted

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

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

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