Legislative Assembly Quotes

It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.

The House [of Representatives] has become not so much a legislative assembly as a huge panel from which committees are selected.

We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so high in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, when we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together in one body politic.

I have the right credentials to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

I'm going from the state House to the opportunity to serve in Congress and serve the people in the Fifth, which is a great honor and a great opportunity... It is something that is exciting to a few people, but, you know, often times it is important for us to own the moment, celebrate it, and then move on.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

I have no political ambitions; never want to be an MP or MLA or a Rajya Sabha member.

When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member." I interjected "I remember." Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

My husband is an opposition MP. Our political alliance may have fallen through, but our matrimonial alliance is intact.

Ordinarily, proportional representation has a centrifugal effect, because it allows many parties, some of them extreme, to win a few seats and enter the legislature.

I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.

This is the era of television and media. If you do not raise issues, then people say that the MLA does not speak in the House. You have to play an effective role in the assembly. Raise issues related to your area.

Parliament is just like Noah’s Ark—many beasts and a few humans.

Before entering Parliament, I spent my career in the city and in business.

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is an invaluable tradition.

Electorates need a simple MLA, even if the person is a big leader.

AAP will never support BJP, but it's determined to support Congress only if they will agree to give Delhi the full-state status.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The representative assembly (House of Representatives) ... should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them

My task will remain incomplete until a BJP chief minister is installed in Lucknow.

According to me, all Congress leaders are supporting me. MLAs and leaders are happy with me.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

I am very grateful to the MLAs for unanimously electing me as the BJD legislature party leader.

Democracy cannot be imagined without Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, and they cannot be imagined without MPs and MLAs.