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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.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

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

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

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The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

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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.

William Hague

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

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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.

William Hague

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

William Hague

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

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

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

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It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

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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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Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

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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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Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

William Hague

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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Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

William Hague

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

William Hague

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

William Hague

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

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I trust the people.

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

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

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I know people are fickle.

William Hague

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

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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.

William Hague

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

William Hague

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

William Hague

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.

William Hague

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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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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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

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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.

William Hague