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

— Chris Patten

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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