"People do not want politicians they know to…" — Paddy Ashdown
"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."
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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 Corrupt Quotes
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one of 489 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt…
— Glenn Beck
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and…
— Joseph Addison
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their…
— Bono
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on…
— Stokely Carmichael
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people…
— Anton Chekhov
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are…
— Jack Abramoff
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
— Marquis de Sade
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds…
— Juvenal
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
— William Shakespeare
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