"I've had much nastier things said about me……" — Paddy Ashdown
"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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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 Bosnian Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks…
— Emir Kusturica
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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…
— Michael Ignatieff
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.
— Adnan
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Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether…
— Josip Broz Tito
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and…
— Janine di Giovanni
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
— John Pomfret
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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
— John Pomfret
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For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army,…
— John Pomfret
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