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A generation of children has been betrayed.

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
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Generations
Children
Betrayed

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We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
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It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.
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I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
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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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Yes, I've never inherited a penny!
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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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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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Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!
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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
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Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.
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I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
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For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.
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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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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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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
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