“I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on import...” — Chris Patten Quote

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

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

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

During my second year at Madrid, Jose Mourinho gave me a kick up the backside. I wasn't doing well, I wasn't managing to do what he wanted me to out on the pitch. So he chided me, saying: 'Why don't you run in training?' My first reaction was to mutter, 'Oh come on... ' But I knew he was right, I had more to give.

If you get too high it comes back to bite you on the backside so I was always aware in spells before when I've done well in a season, eventually there was a wee dip.