William Hague quotes - page 4

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. (William Hague)
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. View quote
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People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level. View quote
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You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. View quote
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics. View quote
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In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. View quote
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We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated. View quote
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We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. View quote
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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. View quote
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Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. View quote
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The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. (William Hague)
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. View quote
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I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. View quote
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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. View quote
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Yes, I've never inherited a penny! View quote
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When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach. View quote
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The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. View quote
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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time. View quote
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[The EU has] too much power.. there should be powers that are returned to this country. View quote
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It is strongly in the interests of Syria, of the wider region and of the United Kingdom that we support them and deny space to extremist groups. View quote
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We will continue to work closely with the Somalia government on shared priorities, which include tackling conflict, countering terrorism and piracy, providing humanitarian assistance, and promoting UK interests in Somalia. (William Hague)
To end up destroying the UK and gravely weakening the European Union would not be a very clever day's work. So, even as a long-standing critic of so much of that struggling organisation, I am unlikely in 2016 to vote to leave it. View quote
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[Philip Hammond] has evidently been trying to persuade his cabinet colleagues that we should be seeking to stay in the EU single market and customs union during a transition and 'implementation' phase lasting to 2022, followed by a free trade deal with our former partners after that. This is seen by longstanding advocates of leaving as a 'soft' position or a climbdown. But in reality it is a plan to rescue Brexit from an approaching disaster. View quote
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To make matters worse, they have elected a foetus as the party leader. I bet a lot of them wish they had not voted against abortion now! View quote
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