“With the broad consensus reached on key aspects of this proposal the European Parliament has provided us with a solid basis for going forward.”
Charlie McCreevy
“Absence not only makes the heart grow fonder... it also makes an MP’s life so much easier.”
Raphael Vassallo
“I would like to welcome the vote reached today in the European Parliament. I know that this has been the subject of a lively and vigorous debate.”
“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
“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
“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
“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
Walter Bagehot
