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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. ↗

— William Hague

#days #does #huge #normally #part

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. ↗

— William Hague

#believe #change #climate #climate change #commitments

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

#deny #highest #highest standards #i #intelligence

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#diminished #genuine #indifference #kind #only

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#agencies #brussels #bureaucracies #cabinet #campaign

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. ↗

— William Hague

#compromises #direct #get #israelis #make

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. ↗

— William Hague

#decided #decision-making #eu #european #everything

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

#countries #country #eu #ever #future

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. ↗

— William Hague

#bigger #china #economy #latin #latin america

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary. ↗

— William Hague

#foreign #secretary #shadow #travel