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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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