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" 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
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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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" It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people. "
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" 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. "
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" Elected presidents are for countries. "
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" A generation of children has been betrayed. "
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" I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. "
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" It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. "
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" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "
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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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" Yes, I've never inherited a penny! "
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" Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! "
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" Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? "
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" We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. "
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" The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. "
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" 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. "
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" For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place. "
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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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" Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. "
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