Patten Quotes

Later evolutionary theorists of linear progress had to advance the overtly physical and historical claim that an ancestral lineage of arthropods actually turned over to become the first vertebrates (for the classical statement of the inversion theory, see William Patten, The Grand Strategy of Evolution, 1920). (Stephen Jay Gould)
[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. View quote
Norman Tebbit
Cheung: It's Chris Patten who said that. View quote
Jiang Zemin