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 is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

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.

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.

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