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" The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. "
William Hague
Low
Now
Place
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" 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
" 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
Find
Him
Will
" 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
" For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place. "
William Hague
More
Security
Become
" 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 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. "
William Hague
Balance
Stress
You
" I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. "
William Hague
Had
Government
Different
" 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
" 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
" I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction. "
William Hague
Reaction
Better
I Am
" I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. "
William Hague
Green
Environmental
Growth
" Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. "
William Hague
More
Now
Find
" The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. "
William Hague
War
Iraq
Out
" Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks. "
William Hague
Pressure
Time
Will
" I trust the people. "
William Hague
People
Trust
" I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. "
William Hague
Realism
Always
Thought
" 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. "
William Hague
People
Power
Trust
" People know that you can't spend more than you have. "
William Hague
Know
You
Than
" Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. "
William Hague
Play
Part
Does
" Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. "
William Hague
Conservative
Always
Party
" 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
" 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. "
William Hague
Number
House
Going
" You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. "
William Hague
Time
You
Prepared
" I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. "
William Hague
Always
Having
Myself
" Elected presidents are for countries. "
William Hague
Elected
Countries
Presidents
" One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. "
William Hague
Piano
Go
One Day
" 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
" 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. "
William Hague
Me
I Am
British
" 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