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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.

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

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Attacking the Liberals is a difficult business, involving all the hazards of wrestling with a greased pig at a village fair, and then insulting the vicar.

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

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My anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.

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Having committed political suicide, the Conservative Party is now living to regret it.

Chris Patten

Chris Patten

Chris Patten

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Born: May 12, 1944 (age 80)

Bio: Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes is chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong and the BBC Trust.

Known for:

East and West (1998)
Not Quite the Diplomat (2005)

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