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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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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We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye
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It's not particularly constructive to dredge up these debates and divisions of the past, ... On the contrary, it's necessary to bring the willing together, not divide them.
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Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.
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We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,
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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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The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.
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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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You only have one chance of making a success of a donors' conference and before you have a donors' conference you need to have sorted out a lot of problems.
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The White Ensign has just been lowered over this shore base, but the values that it has stood for will, I hope, remain in this place: respect for law and for person, trust, duty and service.
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This is an act of war by madmen.
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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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He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,
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What we are still not told is why it is necessary to restrict Hong Kong's civil liberties,