Retributive justice Quotes 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…

— Paddy Ashdown

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

— 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.…

— Paddy Ashdown

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

— Paddy Ashdown

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

— 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…

— 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…

— Paddy Ashdown

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

— Paddy Ashdown

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

— 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…

— Paddy Ashdown

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

— Paddy Ashdown

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Paddy Ashdown