"The greatest failure is that although we have……" — Paddy Ashdown
"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
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Paddy Ashdown
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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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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked…
— Dan Aykroyd
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an…
— Samuel Adams
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
— Joe Biden
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
— Joe Biden
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
— Tony Blair
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