Chris Patten
Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes CH PCis chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong and the BBC Trust...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 May 1944
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I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States
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the whole international community needs to stand together in the face of new threats to our shared values.
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I very much hope the success that's already been achieved will help Wells get over the finishing line and raise the money still required.
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Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.
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Only a state which is terrified of the truth resorts to sending men in masks into television and radio studios, ... Only a regime determined to try to cut Serbia off completely from the rest of Europe could conceive of behaving in this way.
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Nobody, repeat nobody, that I've met from the major political parties in Colombo have raised any question or doubt about my visit at all.
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Politicians in Colombo recognize that they do have to work together in order to provide a common position for dealing with the (Tamil Tigers),
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We want to know that if we are investing money in Macedonia, it is being spent to ensure Macedonia's stability and prosperity,
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The contract is we'll pray that Hong Kong will fly to the heavens, and you'll occasionally say a prayer for us,
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We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye
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Frankly, there wouldn't have been much point in me coming unless I was prepared to go and see the head of the Tamil Tigers and make clear in no uncertain terms what the international community expects of him and his colleagues in coming weeks and months,
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What we are still not told is why it is necessary to restrict Hong Kong's civil liberties,
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We must dig deep in our pockets to make sure Pakistan isn't destabilized by the humanitarian crisis that may be about to engulf the country,
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Certainly in Europe, I don't think that would be acceptable to our electorates. I think our electorates would much prefer us to say, well, we'll do what we can to ensure that at least on our part the protocol is ratified by the time of the conference on sustainable development in 2002,