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Carles Puigdemont

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ARUN JAITLEY We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved...
JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we k...
ROBERT CARO Democracy is more than a ballot box.
MOHAMED ELBARADEI That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an ...
THOMAS CARLYLE That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The Luxembourg government is entirely happy with the changes proposed by the Luxembourg parliament.
GUY SCHULLER Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'ROURKE England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
JULIETTE LEWIS More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Puti...
GARRY KASPAROV What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and th...
JOHN MAJOR No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
ROBERT WALPOLE Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, ...
JACK LAYTON For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a...
BOB BROWN Claiming that some matters are purely political while others are moral and that, therefore, they mer...
ALFRED SANT The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not bel...
BEJI CAID ESSEBSI Death is like a dusty road, without you by my side
BEN OAK When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... The Constitution has defined the office of profit; it is being interpreted by the judiciary and the ...
ARUN JAITLEY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN He excels in wheeling and dealing - I'm sure he'll manage the parliament. He is an utterly decent ma...
HAMID KARZAI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF What we are after is, for the first time, an authentic, standalone voice in parliament. Our peak is ...
PITA SHARPLES How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have app...
PALLAM RAJU We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitu...
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA What is happening in and outside parliament is the justified wrath of people brought to desperation.
YORDAN SOKOLOV Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from ...
AMAR SINGH In ignoring the upper house and trying to gain power beyond parliament by a direct pitch to the peop...
MINORU MORITA Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL While the legal deadline for initiatives is Jan. 26, we've sent a letter to the governor and the Leg...
JENNIFER KERNS One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliamen...
DAVID LANGE The king can then employ some legal ploy to dismiss parliament and the new prime minister.
BABURAM BHATTARAI We have several regional parliaments -- the European Parliament and the African Parliament. The Arab...
ALAA RUSHDI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant m...
ALEXANDER HERZEN Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant ma...
ALEXANDER HERZEN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reduci...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE The notion that the Parliament has been elected, and that laws passed by a majority are valid, seems...
UWE ANDERSEN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
BERTRAND RUSSELL If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM All I can say is that our objective going in is to make Parliament work. That is our one and only ob...
MARC ROY There might be different versions, starting from a dispute over property distribution and ending wit...
KUBATBEK BAIBOLOV Sometimes your fate in this profession is decided by a field goal. Two of our biggest games last yea...
BOB SCUCCI The process by which the death penalty is decided is one that most people are not familiar with,
LEONARD SAND To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual char...
THOMAS SOWELL Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
LAURENCE J. PETER Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Our children will be the first worldwide to be effected by the BWSC monster and through the machinat...
JUSTYNE CARUANA Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not terri...
RONALD D. DWORKIN We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons....
JOSEPH PAUL GOEBBELS The tests have all abided by legal process and technical standards.
FANG XIANGDONG What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN If the Council wins on data retention and the Parliament wins by allowing spam, then the only loser ...
JOE MCNAMEE What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffe...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffe...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER He's trying to dictate the terms of his departure. He's trying to get around the election law by for...
KORN CHATIKAVANIJ See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS This is a manifestation that democracy in our country is very much alive, and protected by both gove...
FIDEL RAMOS Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of famili...
JOHN DONNE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individu...
P.D. JAMES Approval process of the Customs Union Additional Protocol in the Turkish parliament is totally under...
ALI BABACAN Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; b...
ROBERT WALPOLE According to the presidential order (last week), and to the law passed by the parliament (last year)...
JAVAD VAEIDI I think we owe it really to those forces, and to their families back home, to make quite clear what ...
CHARLES KENNEDY Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The people of Kashmir should be involved in a process where their destiny is decided. So far, all de...
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