There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

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

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.

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

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

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

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.