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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.

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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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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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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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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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
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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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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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I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.
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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
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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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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
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You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
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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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One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
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Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!
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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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