William Hague Quotes

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

William Hague

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• Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Something
  • Policy
  • Become

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Policy
  • Stay

• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Realism

• For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Policy
  • India
  • United

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Military
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Pretty
  • Optimistic
  • Call

• We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • President
  • Policy

• In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Strong
  • Try
  • Realism

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Real
  • Book
  • Serious

• I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Policy
  • Cuba

• All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Guided

• Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Politics
  • Policy
  • Russian

• Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq, ... He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Company
  • Policy
  • Forgive

• We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

  

  William Scranton
  • Giving
  • Energy
  • Morning

• I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • High
  • Creativity

• Winners lose more often than losers lose.

  

  William Cranch Bond
  • Winners
  • Losers

• Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Time
  • Women
  • Dream

• I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Music
  • I Know
  • Sexier

• I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

  

  William Hague
  • Policy
  • Realism
  • Idealism