Parliament Quotes - Page 9

• No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Giving, Deeds

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• Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Anxiety, Events, Care

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• We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Debería

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

  Duque de Wellington

  Rivers, House, Sitting Down

  In Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 163

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• When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

  Bill Shorten

  Disability, Ends, Secretary

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Thinking, Iron

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.195, CUP Archive

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• You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Men, May

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

  Adolf Hitler

  President, United States, States

  Adolf Hitler (1953). "Conversaciones secretas, 1941-1944"

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• When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

  Jacques Parizeau

  Men, People, Tradition

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• The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

  Keith O'Brien

  Teaching, Reality, Men

  "Same-sex marriage: Scotland urged to resist Catholic church campaign" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2012.

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• El entendimiento entre un escritor no técnico y su lector es que debe hablar más o menos como un ser humano y no como una ley del Parlamento. Considero que el objetivo de este tipo de libros debe ser transmitir un pensamiento exacto en un lenguaje inexacto... nunca podrá lograrlo sin la cooperación del lector.

  Arthur Eddington

  Libro, Ciencia, Comprensión

  Arthur Eddington (2012). "Nuevos caminos en la ciencia: Messenger Lectures (1934)", p.279, Cambridge University Press.

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• It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Clouds, Land, Cuckoos

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). "As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations", Robson Book Ltd

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• I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunder­stood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.

  Nick Minchin

  Loneliness, Thinking, Self

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• We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

  Lech Walesa

  Government, Needs, Ministry

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• The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

  Albert Camus

  Medio, Gobierno, Derecho

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• The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

  Bertrand Russell

  Justice, Liberty, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2006). “Political Ideals”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe the Sharia should be implemented in Denmark. Maybe we should change the Christiansborg Palace [the Danish Parliament building] to Muslimsborg to have the flag of Islam flying over the parliament in Denmark. I think this would be very nice.

  Anjem Choudary

  Nice, Believe, Cutting

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• Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Years, Nobel Peace Prize

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

  Jacques Delors

  Should Have, Europe, Political

  "Delors: Inside the House that Jacques Built". Book by Charles Grant, 1994.

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• I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.

  Isaac Rabin

  Israel, President, Jerusalem

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• No te tendré haciendo campaña electoral en mi puerta. Cada vez que te metes en problemas en el Parlamento, vienes aquí con el rabo de la camisa colgando.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Running, Trouble, Hanging Out

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• I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Rome, Attention

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

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• Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

  Margaret Hodge

  Thinking, Mps, Lazy

  "MPs look lazy with short parliamentary hours, says Margaret Hodge" by Rajeev Syal, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2013.

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• My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.

  Kevin Rudd

  Party, Years, Effort

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