Quote by William Hague
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfact

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. – William Hague

Other quotes by William Hague

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. – William Hague

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Change
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. – William Hague

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Politics
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The EU is not a country and its 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

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Future
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To many of the modern generations, history, like God, is dead. – Derek Heather

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History

In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didnt have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didnt use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough

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History

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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History

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. – John Podhoretz

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History

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My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the 50s and 60s and 70s. – John Cusack

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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders attitudes toward risk – and failure. – Dee Dee Myers

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