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.

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.

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

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.

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