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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,…
• So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there…
• 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…
• We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing…
• 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…
• 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…

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