William Hague quotes - page 2

Egypt is a sovereign nation. (William Hague)
I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. View quote
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The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. View quote
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I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. View quote
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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. View quote
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Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. View quote
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One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. View quote
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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. View quote
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People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say. View quote
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We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. View quote
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As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. (William Hague)
Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! View quote
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I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction. View quote
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Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve. View quote
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There's only one growth strategy: work hard. View quote
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Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? View quote
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A generation of children has been betrayed. View quote
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When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. View quote
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Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. View quote
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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. View quote
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It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. (William Hague)
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! View quote
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Elected presidents are for countries. View quote
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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. View quote
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Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. View quote
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