William Hague Quotes

• 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 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.

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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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• 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.

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• At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

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• You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

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• Yes, I’ve never inherited a penny!

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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.

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• Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

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• We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

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• Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term – a century-long – error by Europe.

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• Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

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• There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

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• The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

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• The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

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• The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

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• The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.

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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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• The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

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• Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

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William Hague (88)

Birth:	26th March, 1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

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