“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.”
Edmund Burke
“It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.”
Amar Singh
“Absence not only makes the heart grow fonder... it also makes an MP’s life so much easier.”
Raphael Vassallo
“In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.”
Dave Barry
“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
Walter Bagehot
“We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.”
Joseph Paul Goebbels
“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when a”
Winston Churchill
