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
act war
This is an act of war by madmen.
affairs britain lay leading membership rest role
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,
community face needs shared stand threats together
the whole international community needs to stand together in the face of new threats to our shared values.
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Certainly in Europe, I don't think that would be acceptable to our electorates. I think our electorates would much prefer us to say, well, we'll do what we can to ensure that at least on our part the protocol is ratified by the time of the conference on sustainable development in 2002,
accompany careful china chinese fervor hope moral sentiment worrying
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.
europe knows prosperous safer
Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.
decide decisions dictated domestic kong matter people run
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?
candidates eye membership nice
We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye
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,
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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.