A man may speak very well in the House of Commons and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend in the course of my career if I have time to give a specimen of both.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out poetry was my commonsense fallback.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Moreover from reforming the tax code to our immigration system to commonsense legal reform President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country and the world a better place for future generations.

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly if not explicitly systematic theory in this sense.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful it does a great deal of harm.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

What the government has to do if it wants to govern for any length of time is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms we will make our government simpler smaller and smarter.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them though as I'm usually on the run.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.