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" I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. "
William Hague
Some
Countries
Burning
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" 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. "
William Hague
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Him
Will
" 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. "
William Hague
World
Stop
Violence
" 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. "
William Hague
You
Flexibility
History
" 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. "
William Hague
Children
People
Say
" If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet. "
William Hague
Feet
Me
People
" 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. "
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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
" 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. "
William Hague
View
Future
Together
" The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business. "
William Hague
Take
World
Business
" Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. "
William Hague
More
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Find
" I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. "
William Hague
Always
Having
Myself
" 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. "
William Hague
Intelligence
Problems
Try
" I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. "
William Hague
Had
Government
Different
" Yes, I've never inherited a penny! "
William Hague
Penny
Never
Yes
" 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. "
William Hague
People
Reach
Find
" 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. "
William Hague
Wonder
Face
Man
" It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. "
William Hague
Too
Stop
Late
" 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. "
William Hague
Rights
Human Rights
Human
" A generation of children has been betrayed. "
William Hague
Betrayed
Children
Generation
" 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. "
William Hague
Argue
Time
Same
" I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. "
William Hague
Love
Business
Doing
" You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. "
William Hague
Time
You
Prepared
" 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. "
William Hague
Time
You
Children
" 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. "
William Hague
Think
Believe
Day
" 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. "
William Hague
Stress
Place
Kind
" For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place. "
William Hague
More
Security
Become
" Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. "
William Hague
People
Party
Family
" Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! "
William Hague
Best
Self-Knowledge
Tempered
" Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. "
William Hague
Play
Part
Does