Paddy Ashdown Quotes

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• The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
• Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
• People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
• Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural…
• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
• I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a…
• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part…
• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise,…
• I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you…
• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a…

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