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

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- Chris Patten

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

- Chris Patten