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You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

William Hague

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
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William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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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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Egypt is a sovereign nation.
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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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I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
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Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
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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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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
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It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.
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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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As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
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Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
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It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
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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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Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.
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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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