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? — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile.… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative,… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union,… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share
