Foolish Quote by Paddy Ashdown Download Open image “It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.” — Paddy Ashdown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foolish Stupid Way Would be
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I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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