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" I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. "
William Hague
Think
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" I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. "
William Hague
Know
Nasty
Right
" It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time. "
William Hague
Peace
Leadership
Process
" Elected presidents are for countries. "
William Hague
Elected
Countries
Presidents
" The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. "
William Hague
Powerful
Building
Institutions
" I know people are fickle. "
William Hague
People
Know
Fickle
" It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. "
William Hague
Rare
Quite
Must
" I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. "
William Hague
Realism
Always
Thought
" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "
William Hague
Claimed
Really
Once
" We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. "
William Hague
Now
Long
Hope
" It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. "
William Hague
Too
Stop
Late
" 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
" 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. "
William Hague
Nation
Higher
People
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
William Hague
Drive
Wonder
Politics
" We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. "
William Hague
Resolution
Ground
Involved
" 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
" 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. "
William Hague
Progress
Out
Doubt
" There's only one growth strategy: work hard. "
William Hague
Work
Work Hard
Growth
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
William Hague
You
Outside
World
" The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. "
William Hague
Low
Now
Place
" 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? "
William Hague
Catch
Better
Guilty
" It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. "
William Hague
Mission
Build
Government
" 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
" 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
Up
Process
" Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve. "
William Hague
Looking
Good
Life
" People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say. "
William Hague
People
Say
Something
" The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. "
William Hague
Now
Begin
Will