Quotes for All
I’ve always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I’m interested in politics in that I’m a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can’t get into the ins and outs of it. Ewan McGregor
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. … Read more
Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far. Euripides
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness. Eric Williams
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen’s courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen’s courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down. Enoch … Read more
We need female advocates. I’d love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men. Emma Watson
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
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. Elizabeth Taylor
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I’ll perform mine. Elizabeth I
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. Elihu Root