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.

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

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.

We 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.

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.

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