“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
“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.”
GovernmentAll Quotes by William Hague
“I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.”
Business“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”
Hope“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.”
Freedom“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“Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.”
Marriage“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“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“I trust the people.”
Trust“I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.”
Government“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”
Work“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.”
Teacher“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“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.”
Business“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“We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.”
Change“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.”
Government“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“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.”
War