38 quotes by William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.”— William Hague

“I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.”— William Hague

“I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.”— William Hague

“We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“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 by the EU. That needs to change.”— William Hague

“I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.”— William Hague

“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

“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”— William Hague

“I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.”— William Hague

“I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.”— William Hague

“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.”— William Hague

“At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.”— William Hague

“Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.”— William Hague

“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

“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.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“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.”— William Hague

“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”— William Hague