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Paddy Ashdown Facts
Paddy Ashdown Is Born On February 27, 1941
Paddy Ashdown Is Born In New Delhi, India
Paddy Ashdown Nationality Is Indian
Paddy Ashdown Zodiac Sign Is Pisces
Paddy Ashdown Zodiac Symbol Is Fish
Paddy Ashdown Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Metal
Paddy Ashdown Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Snake
Paddy Ashdown Occupation Is Politician
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Paddy Ashdown Quotes
Bosnia is under my skin. Its 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 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 am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
I can create institutions, but I cant rewrite the chips in peoples heads. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
I dont think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
I love this country, I love these people, though I cant say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
I shall go home now. You have to know when your time is up. I knew that with the Liberal Democrats, and I know that now, in Bosnia. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
Ive had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. - 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
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
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
Its not my job to be popular. Im goal-driven; my job is to get results. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
Maybe its legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I havent 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
My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
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 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
Politics is compromise. - 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
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
We are not there yet, but Id be disappointed if in two years time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. - 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
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
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. - Paddy Ashdown Quotes
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