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Chris Patten

"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."

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Donna Grant

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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Donna Grant

"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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Donna Grant

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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Donna Grant

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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Donna Grant

"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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Donna Grant

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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Donna Grant

"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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Donna Grant

"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

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Donna Grant

"Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!"

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Chris Patten
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."

Politics

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Chris Patten
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."

Politics

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Chris Patten
"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."

Cause

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Chris Patten
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."

Time

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Chris Patten
"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other."

Balance

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Chris Patten
"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."

Leadership

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Chris Patten
"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."

Politics

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

Democracy

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Chris Patten
"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."

Politics

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Chris Patten
"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."

Politics

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