I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
Chris PattenGreen 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.
Chris PattenThose of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
Chris PattenWe have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Chris Patten