Paddy Ashdown Quotes

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• At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly,…
• I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
• 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…
• 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…
• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
• 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…
• 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…
• The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to…
• The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
• 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 Brothers…
• One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they…
• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
• In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with…
• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
• 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…
• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
• Politics is compromise.
• 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…

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