"I am here because I think it was……" — Paddy Ashdown

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

— Paddy Ashdown

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32 Quotes by Paddy Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a…
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…
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay…
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…
The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context…
The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is…
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…
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians,…
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

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More Allow Quotes

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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