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

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

- 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

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

- 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

When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union Act 2011, by law that cannot happen …

- William Hague