Home › Authors › William Hague
William Hague Quotes
born 1961 England
William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond (born 26 March 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire from 1989 to 2015.
Also known as: Hague, William
Random William Hague quote
25 quotes
For the first time in history at Question Time, all three parties are represented by a stand-in for the real leader.
If you are less influential in crafting the overall approach of the EU you end up with less influence in the rest of the world.
Any [Brexit] deal is bound to be full of compromises which one group or another in Parliament finds difficult to stomach.
We are determined to reach a diplomatic settlement to the Iran nuclear crisis.
Sir Keir Starmer's team are currently interesting because they are judged to be close to power, rather than being close to power because they are judged to be interesting.
If you became prime minister, with a majority behind you and a decent term in front of you, but were overthrown amid chaos, there is indeed someone to blame. It’s you.
It is about... making a success of membership of the EU but also with democratic consent for that in its modern form and the best form that we can bring about.
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it
There has never been any doubt in my mind that we should have an embassy in Tehran if the circumstances allowed
The lesson of Yugoslavia and the Russian federation is that it is dangerous to force disparate peoples into a common political unit unless they already feel a sense of national affinity.
We want to get a better relationship with the EU - there are changes we want in that relationship
This country needs an increased capability to protect ourselves, not only against cyber attacks on the government but on businesses and on individuals
It is strongly in the interests of Syria, of the wider region and of the United Kingdom that we support them and deny space to extremist groups
It remains the case that the single biggest terrorist threat to this country remains al-Qaeda, or people inspired by al-Qaeda, but what has happened is a reminder that it is not the only source of violent extremist or terrorist attack.
What has happened to our courts system when career burglars and muggers get a few dozen hours' community service, or a couple of months in prison if they are unlucky, while people defending their homes against the very same criminals risk long prison sentences?
[The EU has] too much power.. there should be powers that are returned to this country
[Without intelligence agencies] terrorist groups would have free rein to harm UK citizens here and abroad
To end up destroying the UK and gravely weakening the European Union would not be a very clever day's work. So, even as a long-standing critic of so much of that struggling organisation, I am unlikely in 2016 to vote to leave it.
Getting something like this wrong is not just an academic error or an argument at conference. It affects the jobs of millions. Unlike the ERM, the single currency is for all time. British business could find itself trapped in a burning building with no exits.
The truth is that the supporters of British membership of a single currency tend to fall back on one central argument that overshadows all others. They say: "It's going to happen and that we can't possibly be left out." It is the argument used by every lemming throughout the centuries and it does not bear close scrutiny.
Topics William Hague is quoted on