In a democracy everybody has ...

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

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
 Chris Patten
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 Chris Patten
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.
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 Chris Patten
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
 Chris Patten