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

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.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

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

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.

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.