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
appalling bank economic israel security situation west
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,
crisis deep dig pakistan pockets sure
We must dig deep in our pockets to make sure Pakistan isn't destabilized by the humanitarian crisis that may be about to engulf the country,
attack media parliament passed profoundly represents
We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,
freedom democracy jerk
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
winning people want
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
tribes language affair
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
numbers politician vow
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
honesty winning people
It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.
freedom democracy jerk
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
yugoslavia trying recreation
We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia
military argument moments
Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
problem said difficult
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
trying wells victorian
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
atheist curious
It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.