52 Quotes filtered by Parliament
I think it was a legitimate comment and I mean Twitter is edgy and you know it provokes debate. It looks on this occasion that as if it has caused a serious problem and we need to go back and look at that.
David Wright MP 16/02/2010
on his "scum-sucking pig" Twitter post
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Labour Party, Making Headlines, Member of Parliament (role of)
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
Boris Johnson 2003
Category: Member of Parliament (role of)
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Insulting Liberals, House of Commons
At the House of Commons sword-fighting is strictly taboo. Back-stabbing, on the other hand, is quite a different matter.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: House of Commons
Normally when I'm asked on holiday and I say what I do, I say I'm a traffic warden. That makes me much more popular.
Stephen Pound 31/08/2003
Category: Member of Parliament (role of)
There is a popular belief among Prime Ministers that regular bursts of activity make it look as if something positive is happening.
Richard Marsh
Category: Prime Minister's Questions, Prime Minister (Office of)
To anyone with politics in his blood this place is like a pub to a drunkard.
David Lloyd George
To Robert Boothby.
Category: House of Commons
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Lord Beaverbrook
Category: House of Lords
I have long held the view that the whole country would benefit from a moratorium on new legislation for at least two years.
Ted Willis
Category: Legislation
We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.
Hugh Gaitskell 1962
Category: European Parliament
No Government can be long secure wihtout a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Opposition, What is Government
You can't have a motion without a debate.
Hugh Dalton
On his deathbed when a nurse told him he should stop arguing and have an enema.
Category: Debate
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most vaulable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
On the use of violence to promote the Suffragettes' cause.
Category: Suffragettes, Violence
It was like addressing sheeted tombstones by moonlight.
Sidney Herbert
On what is was like addressing the House of Lords.
Category: House of Lords
There is perhaps a certain retributive justice in it as I have sent so many others here, hoping I should never see their faces again.
Stanley Baldwin
On the House of Lords
Category: House of Lords
I could never be shouted down in the other place and I am not going to be shouted down here.
George Brown 1970
On the House of Lords
Category: House of Lords
I went to the Lords because I had nowehere else to go.
Emanuel Shinwell 1977
Category: House of Lords
