Philip Hammond Quotes

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• Many people in Britain will regard the end of combat in Afghanistan as a very good news story, but for many young men and women…
• Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
• Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
• The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
• 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…
• More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
• 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…
• Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
• 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…
• 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…
• The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.
• It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what…
• It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
• 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…
• It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
• 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…
• To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.
• 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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