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> [The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/the-united-states-will-remain-the-most-powerful-nation-on-earth-for/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

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## More by Paddy Ashdown

> [I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/i-am-formally-accountable-to-the-steering-board-of-the-pic-and-i-meet/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/we-have-invented-a-new-human-right-here-the-right-to-return-home/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/it-works-both-ways-there-are-victims-of-tragedy-who-come-to-me-who/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/i-am-here-because-i-think-it-was-a-terrible-sin-of-the-west-to-allow/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/i-don-t-think-bosnia-is-ready-for-reconciliation-but-i-do-think-it-is/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/the-multinational-corporations-now-developing-budgets-often-bigger/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/now-we-are-intimately-locked-together-you-get-swine-flu-in-mexico-it/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/politics-is-about-putting-yourself-in-a-state-of-grace/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/i-can-create-institutions-but-i-can-t-rewrite-the-chips-in-people-s/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/one-of-the-great-barriers-to-peace-in-the-middle-east-is-that-both/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/it-s-not-my-job-to-be-popular-i-m-goal-driven-my-job-is-to-get-results/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/i-was-told-there-would-be-riots-in-the-streets-but-there-were-no-riots/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/we-who-came-here-saw-what-was-happening-this-was-far-more-than-a-war/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/we-have-to-make-their-livelihoods-viable-get-them-the-proper-prices/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

> [My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/my-second-job-has-been-to-try-to-use-my-power-to-create-institutions/)

[Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/)

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