Elizabeth I
Queen
"[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine."
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Parliament
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament."
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"I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian."
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"I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do."
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"We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it."
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"We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises."
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"When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost."
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"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."
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"Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated."
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"The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs."
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"We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work."
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"In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past."
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"The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes."
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