Quotes about Parliament

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

All the six hundred and fifty-eight members in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; who are strong lovers no doubt, but of their country only, which makes all the difference; for in a passion of that kind (which is not always returned), it is the custom to use as many words as possible, and express nothing whatever.

The House of Commons did not originate as a matter of right in the people to delegate or elect, but as a grant or boon.

Even though the majority of Chileans, especially the entire middle class, supported him. Parliament (again the parliament!) made it difficult for him to govern; it forced him to resign his position and exiled him to Europe.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

I am quite proud of being in Parliament, I actually love it.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.