“You know perfectly well there have been attacks on the rule of law, on the independence of the judiciary; abductions around Hong Kong streets; suggestions that Hong Kong’s autonomy needs to be curtailed in the future; suggestions that the autonomy of Hong Kong’s tremendous universities is something that has to be looked at again; there is a sense that free speech is under threat.”
“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
“In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.”
Chris Patten
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
Chris Patten
“[M]y anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Beijing, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.<!--According to video archives, Patten said "Pek...”
Chris Patten
“As governor, I experienced the vitality of life in a booming and free Asian city, saw routinely the best and worst aspects of human nature, and was made to revisit some of the principles in which I ha...”
Chris Patten
