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

- William Hague

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibilit…

- William Hague

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and hu…

- William Hague

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

- William Hague

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

- William Hague

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 eve…

- William Hague

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

- William Hague

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful …

- William Hague

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…

- William Hague