Chris Patten

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

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.

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

I don't like to get in front of people.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.