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British
-
Politician
Born:
March 26
, 1961
There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
William Hague
Work
,
Growth
,
Work Hard
,
Strategy
,
Hard
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
Freedom
,
Mind
,
People
,
Law
,
Reach
,
Find
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague
Good
,
Truth
,
Discipline
,
Speak
,
You
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.
William Hague
Life
,
Good
,
Money
,
Good Luck
,
Me
,
Luck
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
Respect
,
Decisions
,
Wrong
,
Policy
,
Where
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.
William Hague
Good
,
Future
,
People
,
World
,
Hands
,
Will
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
Future
,
Working Together
,
Together
,
View
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
William Hague
Place
,
Now
,
Edge
,
Economy
,
Low
,
Globally
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 by the EU. That needs to change.
William Hague
Change
,
Great
,
People
,
Process
,
Feel
,
Up
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
Man
,
Politics
,
Face
,
Wonder
,
Cynical
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
William Hague
Building
,
Powerful
,
More
,
Should
,
Global
It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.
William Hague
Rare
,
Quite
,
Must
,
Interviewer
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
William Hague
Government
,
Think
,
Different
,
Only
,
Had
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
William Hague
Play
,
Days
,
Does
,
Peacekeeping
,
Huge
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague
Great
,
Europe
,
Away
,
Long-Term
,
Error
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
William Hague
Thought
,
Always
,
Realism
,
Idealism
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
William Hague
Change
,
Today
,
Face
,
Reality
,
Climate
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?
William Hague
Law
,
Better
,
Guilty
,
Catch
,
Release
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.
William Hague
Change
,
End
,
Find
,
Will
,
President
,
Him
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
Process
,
End
,
Violence
,
Political
,
Will
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
William Hague
Today
,
Will
,
Force
,
Clear
,
Out
,
Message
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.
William Hague
Stress
,
You
,
Place
,
Important
,
Kind
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
William Hague
People
,
Remember
,
Conservative
,
Party
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
William Hague
Government
,
Know
,
Right
,
Nasty
,
Clique
We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
William Hague
Respect
,
Democracy
,
Direction
,
Go
,
See
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.
William Hague
Progress
,
Doubt
,
You
,
Out
,
Seen
,
Seem
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