William Hague
Quotations
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“There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” -William Hague
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“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.” -William Hague
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“Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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“There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.” -William Hague
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“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you’ve been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.” -William Hague
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“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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“Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.” -William Hague
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“The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.” -William Hague
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“Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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“Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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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.” -William Hague
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“I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.” -William Hague
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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
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“I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.” -William Hague
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