Chris Patten Quotes

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• But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of…
• 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…
• Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
• Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
• I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut…
• We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government…
• It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
• Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that…
• There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
• I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
• I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.
• I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an…
• I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
• It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for…
• It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
• Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
• Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
• Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.
• All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of…
• We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

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