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William Hague
British
Politician
Born:
Mar 26
,
1961
Change
People
Time
Will
World
You
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Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
Freedom
Rights
People
Law
Mind
Will
Own
Human Rights
Increasingly
Find
Torture
Corrupt
Steal
Bear
Freedom Of Expression
Reach
Judgement
Block
Oppress
Governments
Deny
Escape
Human
Where
Should
Aspirations
Hard
International
International Law
Expression
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague
Truth
Good
You
Speak
Discipline
Sense
High
High Standards
Without
Common
Afraid
Common Sense
Standards
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
Good
People
World
Political
Will
Own
Elsewhere
Scenes
Inspiring
Taking
Countries
Demands
Greater
Governance
Reform
Hands
Africa
Asia
Ignite
Including
Good Governance
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
Yourself
World
Power
Before
Diffusion
More
Civilisation
Than
Going
Human
Place
Decision-Making
Far
Requires
Ever
Actually
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
Political
Will
Increase
Other
Further
Syrian
Cities
Only
Absence
Pursue
Genuine
Witnessed
Continue
July
End
Reform
Legitimacy
Senseless
Process
Regime
Sanctions
EU
Appalling
Resentment
Violence
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
William Hague
People
Conservative
Remember
Party
Campaign
Labour
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
William Hague
Government
Right-Wing
Wing
Part
Know
Nasty
Nor
Clique
Anybody
Right
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.
William Hague
Politics
Man
Face
Cynical
Every
Telling
Telling Lies
Minister
Lies
Constitutional
About
Only
Sacked
No Wonder
Cabinet
Prime
Prime Minister
Offence
Wonder
Same
Convention
Again
Public
Who
When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
William Hague
Politics
People
Car
Drive
Politicians
Believe
Nine
Out
Minister
Tells
No Wonder
Hypocrites
Prime
Prime Minister
Himself
Wonder
Where
Public
Deputy
Turns
Who
Homes
Two
I trust the people.
William Hague
Trust
People
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
Political
Members
Ministers
Abolish
Brussels
Parliament
Cabinet
House
House Of Commons
Adviser
Reduce
Campaign
Huge
Labour
Offices
Fewer
Going
Size
Regional
Commons
Agencies
Cut
European
Number
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.
William Hague
You
People
Own
Month
Say
Bit
Punished
Retirement
Provide
Rewarded
Children
Little
Little Bit
Aside
Should
Who
Each
Hard-Working
Fund
Set
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
William Hague
Marriage
People
Independence
Country
Sense
Savings
Spending
Only
Supporting
Know
Encouraging
Afford
Rewarding
Common
Common Sense
Things
A generation of children has been betrayed.
William Hague
Generation
Has-Been
Betrayed
Been
Children
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
Family
People
Diversity
Party
Syria
One Party
Religious
Equally
Ethnic
Should
Belong
Belongs
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
William Hague
Will
Minority
Back
Indefensible
Those
Syrian
Find
More
Isolated
Regime
Themselves
Who
Even
Now
Elected presidents are for countries.
William Hague
Presidents
Countries
Elected
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.
William Hague
Future
Working Together
Together
Country
Become
Group
Countries
Going
Working
View
EU
Now
Ever
One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
William Hague
Day
Will
Back
Books
One Day
Piano
Go
The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
William Hague
War
Way
Out
Hoped
Clearly
Iraq
Turned
I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
William Hague
Government
Day
People
Political
Believe
Think
Way
Invasion
Know
Parties
Learnt
Were
Been
Iraq
Left
Political Parties
After
Whether
Against
Lessons
Things
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
William Hague
Will
Advance
Over
Retreat
Begin
Now
British
The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
William Hague
Business
World
Take
Open
Message
Round
Britain
The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
William Hague
Latin
Latin America
Total
Economy
Than
America
Bigger
China
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
William Hague
Wise
Military
Think
Launch
Attack
Israel
Iran
Moment
Thing
It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
William Hague
Too Late
Too
Late
Stop
Treaty
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