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" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "
William Hague
Claimed
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" We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end. "
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" The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. "
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" Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. "
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" I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. "
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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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" 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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" I know people are fickle. "
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" Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. "
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" 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. "
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" I trust the people. "
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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. "
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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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" I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. "
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" The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. "
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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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Than
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" I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction. "
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