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We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
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Yugoslavia
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In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Freedom
Democracy
Jerk
Jerks
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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
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Freedom
Democracy
Including
Jerk
Everybody
Jerks
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It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
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Curious
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I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.
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Should
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I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.
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Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Causes
Co2
Country
Moments
Developed
Developed Countries
Emission
Undoubtedly
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Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
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People
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Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Able
Childhood
Royalty
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There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
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Exotic
Voting
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It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
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I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Endeavor
Important
Seats
Thinking
Worthless
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I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Balance
Believe
Hands
Individual
Individual Freedom
Responsibility
Social
Social Responsibility
Hand
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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Inspiring
Leadership
Essence
Thinking
Articulate
Stick
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Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Numbers
Politician
Vow
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Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
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People
Territory
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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.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Asia
East
Vision
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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.
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Down And
People
Waiting
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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Amount
Fascism
Green
Growth
World
Worst
Extreme
Less
Off
Seeks
Zen
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Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
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Argument
Military
Moments
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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.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Right Thing
Trying
Victorian
Wells
Truth Good Business
Do The Right Thing
Truth Business Good
Pretty Good
The Right Thing
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Accommodations
People
Principles
Above
Principle
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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.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Baggage
Britain
Intellectual
Unnecessary
Politics Always I Am
Carried
Charge
Suppose
Regarded
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I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Cerebral
Cutting
Thinking
Thrust
Vulgarity
Vulgarity Is
Background
Cut
Modestly
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All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police
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Doe
Needs
Police
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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.
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America
Easy
World
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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.
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Affair
Language
Tribes
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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.
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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.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Honesty
People
Winning
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