Campaign for Freedom of Information - The campaign to get a Freedom of Information Act in the UK, and against the shortcomings of the FOI bill currently under debate.
Charter88 - An independent all-party campaign for constitutional reform in the UK. Includes discussion papers, election results, notices of events and a way to sign the Charter online.
Constitution Unit - An independent research body on constitutional change. Site contains information on the House of Lords, devolution, elections and parties, human rights, courts and the legal system, House of Commons and freedom of information.
The Centre for Citizenship - Exploring issues of constitutional democracy in Britain and the need for reform.
Guardian Politics Special Reports: Constitutional Reform - Full coverage includes news, comment and analysis about the issues including devolution, the Act of Settlement, the monarchy and Lords reform plus web resources of government sites and campaign groups.
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-- Yogi Berra A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
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-- Gore Vidal Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
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philosopher.
- Socrates Constitutional Reform
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Constitutional Reform A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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-- Henry Kissinger Constitutional Reform
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Constitutional Reform
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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-- Robert Frost Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Constitutional Reform
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Constitutional Reform "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Constitutional Reform
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius Constitutional Reform The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Constitutional Reform
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Constitutional Reform Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Constitutional Reform
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow Constitutional Reform All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Constitutional Reform
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Constitutional Reform Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Constitutional Reform
