More - Chris Patten Quotes

We want to know that if we are investing money in Macedonia, it is being spent to ensure Macedonia's stability and prosperity.

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 Money

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

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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,

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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.

Chris Patten

 British Politician

Everyone knows that Europe will be safer and more prosperous if it is enlarged.

Chris Patten

 

We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,

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

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 Business

He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,

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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.

Chris Patten