Parliamentary System Quotes

#1. Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

Stockwell Day

#2. Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

John Kasich

#3. Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

James Q. Wilson

#4. Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Stockwell Day

#5. But because it seldom happens people forget that a caucus in the British parliamentary system can remove a leader, including a prime minister.

Chantal Hebert

#6. An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.

Alex Pareene

#7. My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All

Gary Paulsen

#8. You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

Anne Rice

#9. Myth: Vampires can read minds.
Truth: Geez, I hope not. But it would explain some things about my mom.

Kimberly Pauley

#10. The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Dirk Benedict

#11. I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

Robert Rauschenberg

#12. When bad news sells, money politics buys.

Toba Beta

#13. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

Charles Krauthammer

#15. Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

Ferdinand Mount

#16. America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

John Quincy Adams