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

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even 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.

It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

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.

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.