William Hague

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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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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
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.
I trust the people.
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
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 is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
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.
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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