"As governor, I experienced the vitality of life in a booming and free Asian city, saw routinely the best and worst aspects of human nature, and was made to revisit some of the principles in which I have always believed but to which I had rarely given much thought previously. In the darker hours of occasionally fretful nights I found myself face to face with the moral dimensions of political action to a greater extent than ever before."

“whore", "sinner for a thousand years”

““You know perfectly well there have been attacks on the rule of law, on the independence of the judiciary; abductions around Hong Kong streets; suggestions that Hong Kong’s autonomy needs to be curtailed in the future; suggestions that the autonomy of Hong Kong’s tremendous universities is something that has to be looked at again; there is a sense that free speech is under threat.”

“At a time most people would have thought that the aim of the Hong Kong Government should to be bring the whole community together, but it seems appallingly divisive to use anachronistic common law changes in a vengeful pursuit of political events which took place in 2014.”

““ is obviously an issue which is hugely important to a new generation”

““It matters to everyone of us that the press tell it as it is, not as the government wants us to hear.”

“My anxiety is this: 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.”