"We have invented a new human right here……" — Paddy Ashdown
"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
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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 Comeback Quotes
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film.…
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against…
— James A. Baldwin
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
— Steven Adler
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
— John Boehner
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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We must return to nature and nature's god.
— Luther Burbank
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It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the…
— Julie Burchill
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