Business Quote 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…

— Chris Patten

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

— Chris Patten

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Chris Patten

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

— 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…

— 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

We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

— Chris Patten

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

— Chris Patten

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

— Chris Patten

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

— Chris Patten