You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. - William Hague 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. - William Hague 4 Share Now -
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. - William Hague 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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. - William Hague 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. - William Hague 10 Share Now -
