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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What we are still not told is why it is necessary to restrict Hong Kong's civil liberties,
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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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We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,
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Will Hong Kong people really be able to decide for themselves, as promised, how to run their domestic affairs, or will the decisions which matter be dictated by others?
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We do think the appalling economic circumstances in the West Bank and Gaza, that the economic blockade by Israel, that the non-payment of revenues by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, that these things make the security situation worse,
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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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The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,
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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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Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.
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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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Britain has made clear repeatedly to Chinese leaders that it would be wrong and damaging to scrap this council and replace it,
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Every head of government has national interests they want to battle for and there must be trade-offs for an agreement to be reached,
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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.