Paddy Ashdown Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Paddy Ashdown quotes and sayings page 2 (politician). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 24 we have.
“We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.”
“It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.”
“What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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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