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When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.
Theresa May
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British Politician
Boost
Firsts
Giving
Parliament
Confident
Daunting
Re-Elected
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After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
William Lilly
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Astrologer
Religion
Majesty
Parliament
Quiet
Settling
Tranquillity
Years
Nation
Effected
Either
Promised
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The public may want an elected opposition in Parliament, but we have to earn our place and work hard both in our Town Councils and in Parliament to retain the confidence and support of our people.
Pritam Singh
/
Confidence
Parliament
Earn
Elected
Our People
Retain
Work Hard
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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.
Kenneth Rexroth
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Poet
Paraphrase
Parliament
Wells
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On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, Parliament is likely to pass the National Food Security Bill which will be the world's largest social protection measure against hunger.
M. S. Swaminathan
/
Anniversary
Famine
Hunger
Parliament
Protection
Largest
Measure
Occasion
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I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the source of the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. It's taken us three years so far, and we're only half way.
Douglas Hodge
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Parliament
Thames
Houses
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco
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Essayist
Mean
Media
Mediation
Parliament
People
Affairs
Political People Media
Appealing
Directly
Eliminate
Master
Shape
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I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.
Michael Gove
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British Politician
Cameron
Outstanding
Parliament
Prime Minister
David
Encouraged
Minister
Reforming
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As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.
Sam Gyimah
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Defined
Determined
Parliament
Nearly
Decade
Member
Minister
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Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?
Johann Lamont
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Schoolteacher
Arrangements
Parliament
Scotland
Best Always Believe
Best Interests
Best Believe Always
Constitutional
Powers
Test
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We must strengthen everything that defines Denmark. I look forward to working with all of you here in Parliament. We must live up to the hopes we have generated: a safer, more just and greener Denmark.
Mette Frederiksen
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Denmark
Greener
Parliament
Forward
Hopes
Safer
Strengthen
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There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
Fredrik Bajer
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Writer
Men
Achieve
Conversion
Letters
Members
Parliament
Great Man Will
Appeal
Great Deal
Letter
Require
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The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.
Jose Ramos-Horta
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Former President Of East Timor
Government
Access
Appreciate
Approval
Following
Infrastructure
Parliament
Public Health
Requirements
Support
Education Health Government
Budget
Funds
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I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.
Jo Swinson
/
Discrimination
Parliament
Pregnancy
Work Women Society
Babies
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Women are strong. We are strong because we are used to the pain which comes every month. It forms character. I want to see the man who goes to the Parliament with the belly puffed out. They can't do it.
Alessandra Mussolini
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Belly
Pain
Parliament
Women Are
Month
Forms
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When I was 5, 'American Bandstand' had a lot of good artists on there, man. That's when I really started falling in love with the jams: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Patti LaBelle, Bootsy Collins, Parliament.
Scarface
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Falling In Love
Parliament
Love Good Man
Bandstand
Collins
Falling
Good Artists
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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
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Political Figure
Jobs
Bottom
British
Letting Go
Organized
Parliament
Sacrifice
Politics Me People
Job
Allowed
Basically
Coming
Effective
Let Go
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If we want a Parliament that understands people's lives when it takes decisions, it needs to be representative of society, which includes having MPs who are parents of small children - both mums and dads.
Jo Swinson
/
Parliament
Decisions
Dads
Representative
Small Children
Understands
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I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
Donny Osmond
/
Singer
Broadway
Cream
Funk
Growing Up
Mother
Parliament
Railroads
Andy
Grand
Grow Up
Listened
Perry
Railroad
Williams
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No-deal Brexit can and must be stopped. To do that, MPs across Parliament who oppose it need to stand up and be counted. The options available are limited, and we must come together around a workable plan.
Jo Swinson
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Available
Parliament
Across
Brexit
Stopped
Counted
Limited
Oppose
Options
Plan
Stand Up
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For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics.
Elif Safak
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Author
Parliament
Wherever
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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
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Writer
Adequate
British
Cooperation
Extraordinary
Parliament
Acknowledged
Colonies
French
Measures
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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
William Hague
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British Politician
Bill Of Rights
Freedom Of Speech
Members
Parliament
Powerful
Rights
Secure
Speech
Threat
Bill
Intended
Monarch
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I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.
Stephen Daldry
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Director
Afghanistan
Arms
Berlin
Fascinating
Parliament
Roles
Soldier
Thinking
Actively
German
Discuss
Literally
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While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.
Paul Gillmor
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Former U.s. Representative
Democratic
Drafting
Parliament
Plentiful
Reported
Throughout
Victories
Widely
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When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
Elaine Sciolino
/
November
Parliament
Pope
Royal
Senior
Soil
Touched
Francis
Greet
Ms
Official
Visit
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In the E.U., the initiation of policy comes from the European Commission - not the European parliament, the European Commission, an appointed body; a committee of 27 countries where everything is haggled away.
Steve Hilton
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Initiation
Parliament
Policy
Appointed
Commission
Committee
Countries
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The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
John Bright
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British Statesman
Men
Consent
House
Imagine
Parliament
Considered
Concession
Fully
Gained
Large
Lords
Subject
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I'm nothing to do with the Conservative Party; I'm not a member of the Conservative Party. I stopped being a member shortly after I stopped being a member of Parliament and I took up a career as a broadcaster.
Michael Portillo
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Journalist
Conservative Party
Parliament
Broadcaster
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It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
Joseph Hume
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Doctor
Members
Opinion
Parliament
Protect
Declare
Equally
Honourable
Interests
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The way we divorce in this country hurts people on the deepest level. The ripple effect and resonance of it is remarkable, vast - vast - and if I ever went into Parliament, I would become very involved in that.
Alec Baldwin
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Actor
Divorce
Involved
Parliament
Remarkable
Resonance
Ripple
People Way Country
Vast
Hurts
Effect
Country People Way
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People elect their representatives from the Gram Panchayat to Parliament. They vest their will and hopes in these representatives. In turn, the people's representatives devote their lives to the service of nation.
Ram Nath Kovind
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Parliament
Representatives
Service People Will
Devote
Elect
Hopes
Vest
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I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
Louise Mensch
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Author
Amazing
Achievement
Husband
My Own
Parliament
Support
Achievements
Amazing Me Support
Elected
Handed
Help
Stood
Worked
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Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.
Tony Benn
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Giving Up
Parliament
Politics Time Family
Devote
Politics Family Time
Normally
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Referendums are designed to get round parliamentary government, and people only demand referendums when they think they can't get a majority in parliament. Mussolini was the most brilliant practitioner of referendums.
Kenneth Clarke
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Former Minister Without Portfolio
Demand
Parliament
Designed
Round
Mussolini
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If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.
Pauline Hanson
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Former Member Of The Australian Parliament
Australia
Parliament
People
Politician
Representing
Politicians
Promote
Throw
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Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding the extreme ideas that have been gaining ground in the Netherlands for decades.
Rutger Bregman
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Decades
Doubt
Netherlands
No Doubt
Parliament
Seats
Extreme
Gaining
Ground
Regarding
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I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.
Alessandra Mussolini
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Parliament
Representatives
Work Reality People
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The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
Sarah Gavron
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Film Director
Deeds
Motto
Parliament
Riot
Smashing
Central
Houses
Reflects
Windows
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Just when we need a strong government, what do we see? Division. Chaos. And failure. No credible plan for Brexit, no solution to prevent a hard border in Ireland and no majority in Parliament for the Chequers proposals.
Keir Starmer
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Barrister
Chaos
Credible
Division
Ireland
Parliament
Border
Brexit
Prevent
Proposals
Solution
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I met with an Automaidan activist who was part of a self-appointed group drafting a lustration law for parliament, which would exclude from political life people who actively participated in Yanukovych's criminal regime.
Keith Gessen
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Novelist
Drafting
Parliament
Political Life
Actively
Criminal
Exclude
Regime
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When I was a youngster, I and people like us, who are educated and progressive-minded, did not take interest in politics. But then I realised that half of the parliament is being run by politicians with criminal records.
Andrea Jeremiah
/
Parliament
Realised
Politics People Politicians
Criminal
Youngster
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne
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Poet
Family
Determine
Differences
Doors
Parliament
Quiet
Weakness
Compose
Families
Subsist
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I am naturally centre-left so the areas of education there are things on which I could work quite closely with Labour on... For example, on trying in Parliament to abolish SATs, I would be the first one through the gates.
Layla Moran
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Abolish
Example
Gates
Labour
Parliament
Naturally
Be The First
Closely
First One
For Example
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After Brexit, the E.U. will no longer legislate for us. All laws will be passed by the U.K. parliament and the devolved legislatures. Parliament will be truly sovereign, with the freedom to accept or reject any new rules.
David Lidington
/
Parliament
Sovereign
Rules
Accept
Brexit
Devolved
Legislate
Passed
Reject
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I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.
Noreena Hertz
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Aim
Died
Election
Organisation
Parliament
Herself
Stood
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It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express or implied mandate of the Parliament, is unconstitutional and void.
Prashant Bhushan
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Implied
Parliament
Unconstitutional
Void
Acts
Bind
Constitutional
Executive
Express
Scheme
Mandate
Settled
Violates
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One point leavers and remainers agree on is that if there had never been a referendum, and this deal had been proposed as the basis for our country's future, it would have rightly been rejected by parliament and the public.
Sam Gyimah
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Parliament
Rejected
Proposed
Referendum
Rightly
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The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
Mario Monti
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Former Prime Minister Of Italy
Absence
Disagreement
Hinder
Parliament
Political Parties
Remove
Base
Solid
Personalities
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I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you're actually doing a play. It's not quite 24/7, but it's the work that counts.
Glenda Jackson
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Politician
Parliament
Work Ethic
Counts
Ethic
Just As Much
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