Alternatives Quote by Paddy Ashdown

“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, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.”

Paddy Ashdown

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

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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile.…

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

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

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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject…

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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…

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

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

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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that…

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

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

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