"The generous way of putting it is that……" — Paddy Ashdown
"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"
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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 Appeasement Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last.…
— John Naughton
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening…
— George H. W. Bush
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Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us…
— Ronald Reagan
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You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that…
— Anthony Eden
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask…
— John Stott
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Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
— Jasper Johns
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"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings…
— Herbert Read
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Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in…
— Barack Obama
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
— William Allen White
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Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
— Chris Huhne
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