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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Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
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Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
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You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
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Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
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Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
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I hope they (the solutions) are forthcoming and that the government of the Russian Federation will not conclude that the only answer to terrorism is to increase the power of the Kremlin,
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The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,
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Clearly we will be expected to make a substantial contribution (to the reconstruction effort),
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I'm not a starry-eyed optimist about human rights or other issues in North Korea,
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Anna was Sweden and we hope to our very marrow that Sweden will go on being Anna.
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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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Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.
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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.