Quotes by Philip Hammond - Page 1

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
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Homogeneity
Taliban
Western
Assume
Error
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The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.
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Uses
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Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
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Manage
Taliban
Afghans
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You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.
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Job
Afford
Equip
Send
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It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
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Interests
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The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
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Chinese
Uniform
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While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.
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Free Trade
Level Playing Field
Trade
Believe Free I Believe
Believe I Believe Free
Firmly
Open Market
Playing Field
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We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.
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Task
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To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.
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Britain
Infrastructure
Afford
Invest
We Cannot
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It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
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Armed Forces
Defence
Force
Gamble
Scottish
Significant
Troops
Volunteer
Armed
Assume
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Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
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Cyber
Damage
Enemy
Lasting
Possibility
Weapons
Cripple
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Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
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Disaster
Negotiating
Taliban
Weakness
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More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
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Aircraft
Computer
Cyber
Modern
Modern Warfare
Screens
Sitting
Warfare
Weapons
People Will More
More And More
Remotely
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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Defence
Independent
Scotland
Develop
Forces
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There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
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Anger
Definition
Institution
Real Sense
Thinks
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Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
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Disruption
Economic Growth
Flow
Illegal
Iran
Unsuccessful
Attempt
Regional
Threaten
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We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.
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Britain
Capability
Cyber
Mainstream
Sea
Alongside
Attack
Enemies
Strike
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Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.
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Aspire
Connections
World Class
Airport
Big Challenge
Historically
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I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.
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Cycling
Election
Relief
Wilson
Clearly
General Election
Harold
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Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
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Independence
Armed Forces
Crucial
Defence
Economy
Exit
Risk
Scotland
Armed
Forms
Cuts
Forces
Puts
Rush
Thousands
Vital
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Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
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Britain
Competitiveness
Competitors
Dependent
Productivity
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Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.
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Britain
European Union
Objectives
Change Me Way
Union
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Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
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Debt
Economic Growth
Foundation
Labour
Prosperity
Wreckage
Boom
Future Growth Will
Bust
Construct
Enable
Essential
Finances
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When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.
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Communication
Britain
Broadband
Delivering
Employment
Infrastructure
Investing
Ministers
Planning
Productivity
Skills
Transport
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We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.
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Agency
Britain
Commitment
Credit
Election
Rating
Summer
Credit Rating
Ensuring
General Election
Maintained
Standard
Review
Sword
Triple
Vital
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