"I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank." ― John Major Topic(s): Respect More From John Major "My mother was the center of the family." "The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare." "Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein." More In Respect "I take any opportunity I can to raise our country’s flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there."― Kirsty Coventry "I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."― Woodrow Wilson "But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that’s not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."― Norman Lear