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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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'm not a starry-eyed optimist about human rights or other issues in North Korea,
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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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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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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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But there is no cause for thinking sad thoughts, that there is dishonor in these endings. Nothing has melted away. There have been no defeats,
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Every head of government has national interests they want to battle for and there must be trade-offs for an agreement to be reached,
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I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States
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The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,
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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?
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We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye
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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,