“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
“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“deep commitment to Parliament as a fundamental institution of Canadian democracy.”
Paul Martin
“According to the presidential order (last week), and to the law passed by the parliament (last year), the order of resumption of uranium enrichment was issued.”
Javad Vaeidi
“We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.”
Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“To carry weapons and participate in a democratic process and sit in Parliament, there is a fundamental contradiction, and I'm sure they are thinking about it, too.”
Kofi Annan
“Absence not only makes the heart grow fonder... it also makes an MP’s life so much easier.”
Raphael Vassallo
