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.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

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.

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

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

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

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.