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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We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia
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I'm not a starry-eyed optimist about human rights or other issues in North Korea,
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Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.
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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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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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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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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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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.