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" The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal. "

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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. "

William Hague

People

Power

Trust

" 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. "

" Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa. "

" There's only one growth strategy: work hard. "

" I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. "

" Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. "

" Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests. "

" 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. "

" I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. "

" 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

I Am

British

" The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A generation of children has been betrayed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. "

" 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

People

" Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. "

" For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place. "

William Hague

Security

Become

" 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. "

" It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. "