Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.
- C.S. LewisEvery government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
- P.J. O'RourkeIt wasn`t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
- Bernadette Devlin McAliskeyWe ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us
- Robert AtkynsParliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk
- Thomas CarlyleThat a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only
- Thomas CarlyleA Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- Walter Bagehot