Quotes from William Hague

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.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

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

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

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

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

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

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

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.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

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.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

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