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
intellectual baggage unnecessary
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
america world easy
Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.
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.
childhood able royalty
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
people waiting down-and
You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
vision asia west
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
winning people want
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
freedom democracy jerk
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
bring debates divide divisions necessary willing
It's not particularly constructive to dredge up these debates and divisions of the past, ... On the contrary, it's necessary to bring the willing together, not divide them.
majority mandate people speak
The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,
europe knows prosperous safer
Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.
above frankly hot knife order people political pulling question situation terrorism
The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.
clear colleagues coming community expects head point prepared terms tigers uncertain unless weeks
Frankly, there wouldn't have been much point in me coming unless I was prepared to go and see the head of the Tamil Tigers and make clear in no uncertain terms what the international community expects of him and his colleagues in coming weeks and months,
thinking important endeavor
I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.