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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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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
Biographer
British Politician
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Politician
William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
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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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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.
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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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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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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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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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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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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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