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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

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Chris Patten

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

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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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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.

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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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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.

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