History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours. — 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 Image
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Image
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
