"I was told there would be riots in……" — Paddy Ashdown
"I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots."
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32 Quotes by Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown has 32 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC…
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay…
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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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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it…
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The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context…
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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is…
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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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…
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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians,…
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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More Riots Quotes
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
— Bob Cousy
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While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work…
— Barack Obama
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I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes,…
— Charley Reese
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful…
— William Allen White
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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film.…
— Richey Edwards
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My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get…
— Chris Rock
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Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about…
— Samuel Gompers
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
— William Allen White
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Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the…
— Robert McNamara
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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne…
— John Foster Dulles
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I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's…
— Erskine Caldwell
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The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
— Georges Pompidou
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