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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
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British Politician
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William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
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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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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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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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It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.
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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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We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
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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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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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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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The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
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If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
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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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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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Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
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Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.
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You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
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