In this case we see that the plans were followed quite well—not all the time and not to the full extent, but the first lesson we've learned is that, yes, the machine can work.

Often with defence counsel, the lower the BAC, the more you'll have to argue the presumption, which is that the machine was working correctly at that time.

– (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance have never had much time for the great parliamentary reforms carried out by Mr Corbett – he is a friend of mine and we have worked together for many years, he is aware of this and he will not hold it against me – because they tend to turn our Parliament into a bureaucratic machine where the role of individual MEPs and minority groups and even the committees must be subject to the growing, partly arbitrary, decision­making power of the Conference of Presidents and the administration.

At voting time on the final report, my voting machine did not work.