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Paddy Ashdown Quotes

Paddy Ashdown quotes

British Politician February 27, 1941

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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. Paddy Ashdown
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
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
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. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "We have invented a new human right here - the right to return..."
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way."
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal..."
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "The greatest failure is that although we have created..."
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. Paddy Ashdown
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
Paddy Ashdown quote: "I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to..."
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have..."
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "I've had much nastier things said about me in the British..."
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. Paddy Ashdown
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
Paddy Ashdown quote: "I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do..."
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown quote: "Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace. Paddy Ashdown

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