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«When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Politics,
Public opinion
| Keywords:
district, districts, guaranteed, inflammatory, parliamentary, party system, positions, run-in, The Center, The District, two-party
«Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| Keywords:
good faith, Machiavelli, parliamentary, parliamentary government, public discussion
«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.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
dullness, parliamentary, parliamentary government
«The noble Lord [Lord Stanley] is the Rupert of parliamentary discussion.»
«No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war they may oppose, a war which even possibly may be wrong, a war which, in any case, does not involve immediately the peace and freedom of the nation.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
Die in, involve, in any case, oppose, parliamentary, parliamentary democracy, parliamentary government, Peace and Freedom, rooted
«Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, claiming, corresponding, duties, History of the, inherent, occasion, parliamentary, privileges, records, Rights and privileges, Rights of Man, sophism, stated, The Rights of Man
«Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
parliamentary, red tape, Talking machine, tape machine
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