Chris Patten Quotes

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.