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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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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
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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.
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Yes, I've never inherited a penny!
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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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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
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Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
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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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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
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Elected presidents are for countries.
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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.
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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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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The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
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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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I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
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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.
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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
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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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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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