In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
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.
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
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.
Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
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.
I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.
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
You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
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.
We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia
