Asians...put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and — Chris Patten

"Xi Jinping and his court have regarded Hong Kong and Hong Kongs freedoms as an existential problem for them because Hong Kong represents so much of what they dislike."

"[Nigel Farage] offers nothing for a healthy Conservative future. His saloon bar bluster, if translated into policy, would give us Liz Truss economics, Jeremy Corbyn foreign policy (which would be much loved by Putin) and an approach to our nations identity akin to that of Tommy Robinson (albeit Tommy Robinson with a cravat)."

"No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum."

"As governor, I experienced the vitality of life in a booming and free Asian city, saw routinely the best and worst aspects of human nature, and was made to revisit some of the principles in which I have always believed but to which I had rarely given much thought previously. In the darker hours of occasionally fretful nights I found myself face to face with the moral dimensions of political action to a greater extent than ever before."

"[M]y anxiety is not that this communitys autonomy would be usurped by Beijing, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong."

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