71 Quotes by Chris Patten

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

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

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

We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

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.

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

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.

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

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