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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

William Hague

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
Biographer
British Politician
Historian
Judoka
Politician
William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
Strategy
Growth
Hard
Work

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I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
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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.
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People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
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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.
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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
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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.
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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.
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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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I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
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A generation of children has been betrayed.
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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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I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
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It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
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Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
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