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Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who served as the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-1997. He has been a crossbench member of the British House of Lords since 2005 and a former British Conservative politician until 2011, as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1979 to 1992.

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Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

Causes, Co2, Countries, Country, Moment, Moments

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

Mean, Thinking, Should, Capitalism, Unbridled

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Balance, Believe, Freedom, Hands, Responsibility

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.

Right, Thing, Truth, Trying, Victorian, Wells

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.

Amounts, Green, Growth, Sort, World

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.

America, Difficult, Easy, Relationships, Rest, World

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

Atheist, Atheists, Curious, Faith, Intolerant, Proved

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Endeavor, Important, Politics, Seats, Think, Thinking

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

Elections, Exotic, Preposterousness, Sort, Voting, Way

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.

Affair, Conduct, Democratic, Institution, Language, Tribes

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.

Cut, Cutting, Modestly, Thinking, Vulgarity, Vulgarity Is

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.

Vision, East, Asia, Kong, Comfortable

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.

Ability, Clear, Essence, Inspiring, Leadership, Thinking

We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

Recreate, Recreation, Trying, Yugoslavia

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Numbers, Politician, Vow, Margaret, Know, Supposed

Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

Business, Men, People, Stability, Territory

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.

Honesty, Leader, People, Risks, Win, Winning

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.

Accommodations, Course, People, Principle, Principles, Values

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

Able, Childhood, Deprivation, Happy, Literary, Royalty

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.

Baggage, Intellectual, Suppose, Unnecessary