Chris Patten

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

— Chris Patten

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.

— Chris Patten

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

— Chris Patten