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Parliament Quotes (284 Quotes)
The government should hold a meeting of all parties immediately before the Parliament session, to explain the background of India's vote at the IAEA meeting on Saturday.
Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who lost her son in Iraq and who has spent the last month perched outside the Crawford ranch like Poe's raven, almost sounds like she pities George in her latest dispatch from Camp Casey. Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well, ... and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution, since violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down every day, he had to come up with something.
The upper house decided that postal privatization is not needed. So I would like to ask the general public whether it supports or opposes it. That's why I dissolved Parliament, ... I will do my best to win the elections so that I can continue the reforms.
I think they'll take it very seriously and I think that they'll find, in Parliament at least with the Liberal party, not a lot of serious opposition to this.
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
We will have an opportunity to discuss in depth the key aspects of interaction between Russia and Uzbekistan with President Islam Karimov, as well as with the speakers of both houses of the Uzbek parliament.
it's the decision of the Afghan people. Very good. As a matter of fact, I want a good, strong parliament.
We're not going to stop pedestrian access to London -- London is open for business, ... What we can't have is tens of thousands of demonstrators in Whitehall when Parliament is sitting.
The government will be put in the dock in Parliament if it insists on voting for a referral to the Security Council. Left parties have formulated some opinion on this. We will convey it to the government. If government still goes ahead with it, we are free to take steps to bring the government to its knees.
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Whether they will be splitting royalties and how they will track downloads and payments are important questions the parliament will have to answer.
Even though we didn't have a free press under apartheid, the government of that day seemed to be very much more accountable in parliament.
Parliament considered national interest and in as much as people raise their objections, no one will intimidate or deny the people in the town the right to vote.
This particular gathering of justice ministers does provide a historic opportunity for the justice system to send a message to Parliament,
They must clear their position on the opposition proposals for reforming the system of caretaker government and the EC. It appears that they were trying to bypass our reform proposals asking us to place it in parliament in the form of a bill.
This election is special because for the first time in years I can say we have had no opposition in the German parliament.
How many more must die We are not negotiating or asking the Government for something. We simply want an Act that has been passed in Parliament to be implemented for the safety of all workers.
The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but representatives of the people elected on a party ticket, which is different.
We will not achieve our collective goals for development, peace and security and human rights if we do not take concrete action to enhance women's participation in decision-making in governments, parliaments, international organizations, academic life and the private sector.
These elections are very important because until now it's been a presidential regime. Karzai has been elected, but it's a one-man regime. To have a Parliament is very important to give a democratic dimension to the regime.
We will set as the loyal opposition in parliament.
The army... is now publicly declared to be for the purpose of enforcing obedience to the authority of Parliament.
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
This is probably the largest amount of popular support I've seen for the idea of establishing a parliament.
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
The Turkish government is facing up to difficult issues in a serious and conscientious way. And the United States respects the principles of the Turkish government in bringing this issue to the Turkish parliament.
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all.
If we can elect a speaker tomorrow then the Parliament can start functioning normally. People feel they have been let down and that is eroding their faith in the whole political process.
This rejection was predicted. The directive was heated up again after we already said no to it once. The parliament did the right thing in voting 'no' a second time. It was not prepared to look ridiculous.
I have not asked anybody so far to form the government but we are leading towards contacts and consultations with all the blocs in parliament.
Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.
Today, there are a lot of opposition members of parliament who are not only ready for elections, they're pushing for them,
We will call today for holding the meeting on the 12th of this month because it is the last day that the constitution allows us to hold the meeting of the new parliament.
If Martin is willing to take action on a few key issues over the next few weeks, then perhaps we can wait until the election in the winter, ... If not, then clearly the parliament serves no positive purpose.
Today's vote underlined that as the strongest bloc in parliament, it is up to us to build a government. We are faced with a challenge that is difficult, but solvable.
We support an all-inclusive process and we had hoped that this electoral process ... would pull the Iraqis together, ... It has not worked as we had hoped, but we still urge the parties to work together and I believe the reversal by the parliament of the decision last night would help the process.
None of this was ever put before parliament or the British people in March 2003 when military action commenced.
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
On April 14, the political blocs started to discuss candidates for the posts and formed a committee to discuss the details of the distribution of the posts. The committee met yesterday April 15 and it will meet again today, and at the end of the day leaders of the blocs will meet to consider the recommendations of the committee and took a decision regarding the meeting of the parliament.
The Prime Minister said he would certainly not resign. But if he was put into a situation that he had to make any decision, he would dissolve parliament.
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
Those who did everything to make the Socialists disappear from the political scene were not right, ... I'm sure we'll have 20 percent of the votes in the end and we'll be the strongest opposition party in the parliament.
The CPPCC National Committee will continue to actively develop its friendly exchanges with foreign parliaments, international organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations.
Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.
While the government does not believe that the recall of Parliament is warranted at this time, it believes that we cannot exclude such a possibility between now and the scheduled resumption.
I am . . . joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper. Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify. I wallow in words.
There have always been abnormalities in elections including in my own country, the United States. My hope is opposition party members would take their seats in parliament and ensure that voters' interests are represented,