William Hague
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.Collection: Travel
It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Environmental
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.Collection: Freedom
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.Collection: Independence
When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.Collection: Car
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.Collection: Teacher
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Intelligence
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 interests gives.Collection: Independence
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.Collection: Freedom
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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.
It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.
People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
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.
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!
I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.
Yes, I've never inherited a penny!
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
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.
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.
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.
I know people are fickle.
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.