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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. "

William Hague

Law

Time

Optimism

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

" I trust the people. "

William Hague

People

Trust

" You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. "

" When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach. "

" Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa. "

" There's only one growth strategy: work hard. "

" I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. "

" People know that you can't spend more than you have. "

" It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. "

" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "

" It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. "

" You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. "

" Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. "

William Hague

Now

Find

" 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. "

" Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests. "

" Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. "

" 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. "

William Hague

Great

Process

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished. "

" Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. "

" I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. "

" One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. "

William Hague

Piano

One Day

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. "