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Paddy Ashdown Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated May 2024
Paddy Ashdown Topics
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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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
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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.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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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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Politics is compromise.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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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.
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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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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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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
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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.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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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.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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