49 ordspråk av Chris Patten
Chris Patten
I'm not a starry-eyed optimist about human rights or other issues in North Korea,
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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
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In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
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In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
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It's not particularly constructive to dredge up these debates and divisions of the past, ... On the contrary, it's necessary to bring the willing together, not divide them.
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Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.
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Nobody, repeat nobody, that I've met from the major political parties in Colombo have raised any question or doubt about my visit at all.
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Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, ... There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
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Only a state which is terrified of the truth resorts to sending men in masks into television and radio studios, ... Only a regime determined to try to cut Serbia off completely from the rest of Europe could conceive of behaving in this way.
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Politicians in Colombo recognize that they do have to work together in order to provide a common position for dealing with the (Tamil Tigers),
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She destroyed the Conservative party,
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the armed extremists will lose.
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The contract is we'll pray that Hong Kong will fly to the heavens, and you'll occasionally say a prayer for us,
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The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,
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The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.
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