“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”
Work
“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.”
WarAll Quotes by William Hague
“I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.”
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“Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.”
Marriage“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.”
Change“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.”
Change“I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.”
Intelligence“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.”
Government“I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.”
Government“Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.”
Respect“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.”
Government“I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.”
Business“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“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
Good“I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.”
Government“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”
Hope“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.”
Change“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“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.”
Freedom