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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 think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
William Hague
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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.
William Hague
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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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Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
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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 have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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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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We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
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In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
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To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.
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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 is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
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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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There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
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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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I know people are fickle.
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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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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
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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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People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.
William Hague