Quotes About British Parliament

#1. The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

Dava Sobel

#2. [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament ... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

Trent Lott

#3. There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

Noah Webster

#5. The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

Mercy Otis Warren

#6. [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

Nancy Astor

#7. A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.

Tom Gjelten

#8. Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

Bernadette Devlin

#9. Pitt and Burke were two of the most eloquent and respected members of Parliament, and taken together, by early 1775, they were warning the British ministry that it was headed toward a war that was unwise, unnecessary, and probably unwinnable.

Joseph J. Ellis

#10. Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Aaron Huey

#11. [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

William E. Gladstone

#12. If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

Soichiro Honda

#13. In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
- Marjorie Dorfman, The History of Make-up

Julie Klassen

#14. [1768] The Billeting Act, which required the colonists to lodge and feed the British troops quartered among them, added fuel to the flames. In 1768 the New York legislature refused to comply, and Parliament suspended its legislative functions.

E. Benjamin Andrews

#15. Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?

Ronald Harwood

#16. From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

Tony Attwood

#17. The British version of 'Shit My Dad Says' is really entertaining.

Jeremy Scahill

#18. He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.

Jack Kerouac

#19. The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity.

Elliott Abrams

#20. She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same?

Kameron Hurley

#21. I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

David Blunkett

#22. Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.

Karen Salmansohn

#23. When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

Jacques Parizeau

#24. In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

Dava Sobel

#25. When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

Noreena Hertz