Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

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

My work in Ukraine ceased following the country's parliamentary elections in October 2014.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

Since 1998, I have served my country as a member of four cabinets and as the leader of the parliamentary opposition.

The old division of Left versus Right is dead. In the Internet age, it's about citizens versus parliamentary relics.

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

If the court case I brought against the government over article 50 was about anything at all, it was about parliamentary sovereignty.

The Parliamentary Labour Party is a crucial and very important part of the Labour party, but it is not the entirety of the Labour Party.

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any presumptions on it.

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political tradition.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.

It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the brightest and best remain on the backbenches.

The English, being the most practical people in the world, came up with parliamentary democracy and codified football and Cadbury's Creme Egg. And yet they voted for Brexit.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

I fought for MPs to have the right to vote on article 50 not because I was against Brexit, but because I was, and remain passionately, an advocate of parliamentary sovereignty.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Rahul Gandhi gets a copy of every programme that has been started by the Centre during Parliamentary procedure, but he has got no time to read. He has got time to go to night clubs.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.

There is a system in BJP as to who would be projected as a chief ministerial candidate or a prime ministerial candidate. The proper forum to take decision is only central parliamentary board.

Parliamentary obstructionism should be avoided. It is a weapon to be used in the rarest of the rare cases. Parliamentary accountability is as important as parliamentary debate. Both must coexist.

It was inevitable and understandable that the election of Jeremy Corbyn would be a massive culture shock for some sections of the party, especially some members of the parliamentary Labour party.

The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.

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