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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Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.
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Nobody, repeat nobody, that I've met from the major political parties in Colombo have raised any question or doubt about my visit at all.
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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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I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States
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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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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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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.
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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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I'm not a starry-eyed optimist about human rights or other issues in North Korea,
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Clearly we will be expected to make a substantial contribution (to the reconstruction effort),
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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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Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.