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It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.

— Chris Patten East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future (1998)

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No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.

East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future (1998)

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

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

Asians...put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.

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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.

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