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" We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. "
William Hague
Change
Face
Reality
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" The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. "
William Hague
America
Economy
Latin America
" Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman! "
William Hague
Claimed
Really
Once
" 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. "
William Hague
Wrong
Ethical
Decisions
" Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. "
William Hague
Independence
People
Marriage
" I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. "
William Hague
Invasion
Agree
Still
" One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. "
William Hague
Piano
Go
One Day
" The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business. "
William Hague
Take
World
Business
" 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
" There's only one growth strategy: work hard. "
William Hague
Work
Work Hard
Growth
" 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
" It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. "
William Hague
Get
Necessary
Track
" I know people are fickle. "
William Hague
People
Know
Fickle
" 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
" 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
" I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. "
William Hague
Think
Wise
Moment
" People know that you can't spend more than you have. "
William Hague
Know
You
Than
" It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. "
William Hague
Rare
Quite
Must
" 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. "
William Hague
Violence
End
Process
" 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. "
William Hague
World
Stop
Violence
" The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. "
William Hague
War
Iraq
Out
" 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
" 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
" Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. "
William Hague
Long-Term
Turkey
Great
" 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. "
William Hague
Future
Political
Good
" Yes, I've never inherited a penny! "
William Hague
Penny
Never
Yes
" 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. "
William Hague
Time
You
Children
" 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
" I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. "
William Hague
Realism
Always
Thought
" The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. "
William Hague
You
More
Place
" The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. "
William Hague
Now
Begin
Will