“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
Good
“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.”
TeacherAll Quotes by William Hague
“Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.”
Marriage“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.”
Change“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.”
Power“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.”
History“I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.”
Government“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.”
Home“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.”
War“I trust the people.”
Trust“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”
Hope“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.”
Future“There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.”
Travel“We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.”
Change“I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.”
Change“I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.”
Government“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”
Work“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.”
Respect“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.”
Government“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”
Power“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.”
Politics