William Hague People Quotations

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

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

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.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

squandered a huge Commons majority, the goodwill of the people of this country, and the best set of economic conditions any government has ever inherited.

It must be a sobering lesson for all parties that millions of people have been reluctant or have refused to participate in this election at all and there will be much to reflect on for the Conservative Party.

People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.

I know people are fickle.

How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?