William Hague Quotes

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William Hague

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 26, 1961

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

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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.

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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.

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I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

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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.

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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

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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.

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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

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You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

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If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

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We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

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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?

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Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

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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.

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