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> [In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/in-a-democracy-everybody-has-a-right-to-be-represented-including-the/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

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> [In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/in-democracy-everyone-has-the-right-to-be-represented-even-the-jerks/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/we-have-our-own-system-and-journalists-in-our-system-are-not-put-in/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/there-is-a-sort-of-exotic-preposterousness-about-a-lot-of-elections/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/in-a-democracy-everybody-has-a-right-to-be-represented-including-the/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/hong-kong-represents-the-kind-of-asia-with-which-both-west-and-east/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/i-think-that-what-most-surprises-anybody-who-goes-into-politics-from/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/those-of-us-who-had-a-perfectly-happy-childhood-should-be-able-to-sue/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/multilateralism-is-not-an-easy-option-we-re-going-to-find-that-the/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/anyone-who-supposed-that-when-margaret-thatcher-left-number-ten-she/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/it-is-a-sort-of-great-victorian-truth-that-actually-trying-to-do-the/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/we-re-not-trying-to-recreate-yugoslavia/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/it-is-almost-always-wrong-that-the-time-isn-t-ripe-to-decide/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/i-don-t-think-that-capitalism-should-be-unbridled-if-by-unbridled-you/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/undoubtedly-at-the-moment-the-major-cause-of-co2-emission-is-what/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/it-d-make-a-wonderful-change-to-have-the-leader-of-a-pluralist/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

> [I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-patten/i-believe-in-trying-to-get-a-balance-between-individual-freedom-on/)

[Chris Patten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-patten/)

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