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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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" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. "

" I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. "

" 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

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" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "

" I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. "

" It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. "

" Egypt is a sovereign nation. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. "

" The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. "

" I know people are fickle. "

" People know that you can't spend more than you have. "

" Yes, I've never inherited a penny! "

" The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. "

" People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "