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William Hague

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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.

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The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

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

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

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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.

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People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

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

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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.

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Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

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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.

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