William Hague Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
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I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
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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 at that level.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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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.
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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
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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.
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Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
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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.
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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.
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I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.
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Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
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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.
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You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
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I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.