Chrystia Freeland Quotes

I'm known on the Hill for having respect, I think, on all sides of the House of Commons because I don't buy into treating people poorly.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

The only thing I command is respect.

It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

They [speakers] enjoin promptitude and impartiality in deciding the various questions of order as they arise; firmness and dignity in his deportment toward the House; patience, good temper, and courtesy towards the individual Members ... the fair exhibition of every subject presented for consideration. They especially require of him, in those moments of agitation from which no deliberative assembly is always entirely exempt, to remain cool and unshaken amidst the storms of debate, carefully guarding the preservation of the permanent laws and rules of the House from being sacrificed to temporary passions, prejudices, or interests.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

… the scene of noise and uproar which the House of Commons now exhibits is perfectly disgusting. This used not to be the case in better, or at lease more gentlemanlike, times; no noises were permissible but the cheer and the cough, the former admitting every variety of intonation expressive of admiration, approbation, assent, denial, surprise, indignation, menace, sarcasm. Now all the musical skill of this instrument is lost and drowned in shouts, hootings, groans, noises of the most discordant that the human throat can emit, sticks and feet beating against the floor.

The Islamic Resistance Movement does not allow slandering or speaking ill of individuals or groups

I don't think that any campaign is ennobled by people trading insults.

As leader of the House, I seek to do exactly that, treating all members of Parliament with courtesy and respect.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

I'm a gentleman.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.