Quotes By William Hague

I know people are fickle.

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

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.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

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.

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

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.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

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.

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

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

I trust the people.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

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.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

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

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

A generation of children has been betrayed.

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

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

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.

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