Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Campbell

Mechanization or industrialization of this sort has really only left man with one all-important mission in life: to conquer nature.

Robert Baldwin

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Robert Bourassa

One can always debate questions back and forth.

Agnes Macphail

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

Agnes Macphail

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

Agnes Macphail

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

Agnes Macphail

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

Edward Blake

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

Charlotte Whitton

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

John Lilly

We were an extremely young football team last year and played some freshmen, and we were hoping that would pay off. But we elected to just not talk a whole lot about last year.

Ross Anderson

The people must insist on the truth from our elected officials and our news media,

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

Ed Koch

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

John McCarthy

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Mike Quigley

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

Robin Munro

We know that many workers are walking around being owed a year or two years' wages. It is not uncommon at all.

Matt Hasselbeck

It's a pep rally, right? Those people were there from, like, 4:30 in the morning, so I feel like I owed them something.

Edmund Burke

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.

Derrick Kellier

I feel satisfied, it has been a long haul. I have been in Parliament since 1989.

William Wilberforce

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I don't think that parliament will find the strength to annul its decision.

Dario Perkins

A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.

Jeremy Corbyn

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

Kenneth Rexroth

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Jack Layton

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.