I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. - Chris Patten
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
- Chris Patten
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia. - Chris Patten
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. - Chris Patten
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the c… - Chris Patten
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the c…
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accomm… - Chris Patten
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accomm…
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician. - Chris Patten
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the wo… - Chris Patten
Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the wo…
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government mi… - Chris Patten
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government mi…
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end. - Chris Patten
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
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