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Paddy Ashdown Quotes

Politics is compromise Picture Quote #1
It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results Picture Quote #1
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations Picture Quote #1
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party Picture Quote #1
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war Picture Quote #1
It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results Picture Quote #1
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I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press Picture Quote #1
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals’ broad agreement with what I do Picture Quote #1
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No Picture Quote #1
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way Picture Quote #1
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt Picture Quote #1
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace Picture Quote #1
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots Picture Quote #1
I love this country, I love these people, though I can’t say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold Picture Quote #1
There can be no place in a 21st century parliament for people with 15th century titles upholding 19th century prejudices Picture Quote #1
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future Picture Quote #1
It works both ways: There are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them Picture Quote #1
Bosnia is under my skin. It’s the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years Picture Quote #1
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war Picture Quote #1
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others Picture Quote #1
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy Picture Quote #1
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again Picture Quote #1
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society Picture Quote #1
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? Picture Quote #1
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Maybe it’s legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven’t paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that Picture Quote #1
I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s heads Picture Quote #1
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Politics is compromise  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results.  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals’ broad agreement with what I do  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I love this country, I love these people, though I can’t say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) There can be no place in a 21st century parliament for people with 15th century titles upholding 19th century prejudices  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) It works both ways: There are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) Bosnia is under my skin. It’s the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) 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?  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) Maybe it’s legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven’t paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes) I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s heads  (Paddy Ashdown Quotes)