25 Quotes by Philip Hammond

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.

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.

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 for us.

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.