In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. -Chris Patten

 

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.


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We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Chris Patten

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

Chris Patten

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.

Chris Patten

The armed extremists will lose.

Chris Patten

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.

Chris Patten