Paddy Ashdown Quotes (24 quotes)

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„We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.“
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„We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.“
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„The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?“
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„I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.“
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„I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.“
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„My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.“
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„What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.“
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„It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.“
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„It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.“
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„I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.“
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„I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.“
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„I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.“
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„Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.“
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„We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.“
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„Politics is compromise.“
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„Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.“
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„I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.“
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„I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.“
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„The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.“
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„People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.“
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Paddy Ashdown
Author born: February 27, 1941
Nationality: British
Author Profession: Politician

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