[About Hong Kong:] No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum. - Chris Patten

Asians [...] put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.

While we were allegedly taking part in a golden age of China, the head of the Chinese Communist Party was instructing party officials and government officials to engage in an intense struggle against all the things that we and other liberal democracies stand for: Rule of law, parliamentary democracy, universally valid human rights, historical inquiry, all those sorts of things.

[M]y anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.