Quotes By William Hague

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

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?

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.