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Chris Patten
 
Date of birth: 12 May 1944
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: England
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" A couple of the arguments which are related to that have, of course, been blown out of the water since the Asian crash in 1997. "

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" After all, it's only a generation ago that Asians were fighting my own country precisely for those values, when they were fighting for there own independence. "

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" And it's an area where we have a particularly substantial amount of expertise in the United Kingdom because of the breadth of our colonial past. "

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" And that we shouldn't assume that a good relationship - it 's very important insight of Schultz's - was something which the Chinese could offer or withdraw. "

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" And then I stood for Parliament for Bath in 1979 and I've been in Parliament now ten years. "

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" And they took the view, on balance, that if they were to get lectures on the survival of tribes from anyone, maybe American politicians weren't first in the queue. "

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" And we had been trying to ensure, for some time before, from the time I'd become minister about three years ago, that our own aid program was environmentally friendly. "

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" As I mentioned earlier, I'd first been appointed as director of the Conservative research department when Ted Heath was leader of the Conservative party. "

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" Because of history, Hong Kong was about to become another city in China, albeit with all sorts of guarantees. "

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" But it didn't take very long of a Labour government to drain my persona of such social democratic sympathies as it might otherwise have had. "

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" But it's going to be more difficult to deal with environmental issues because so many more countries are involved. "

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" 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. "

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" Especially if you lecture them in a way which will occasionally seem to them to be tiresome, a threat to their sovereignty, and, dare I say, hypocritical. "

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" Fudge always gets up and smacks you in the face, like a custard pie. And there was a lot of fudge around as far as our position with China was concerned. "

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" Harold Wilson put quite a lot of people like me to the sword, or at least put our aspirations to the sword very rapidly. "

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