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Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Politics
Compromise
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Politics
Grace
Politician
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
People
Politician
Want
People Know Want
Corrupt
Politicians
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Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Certain
Coalitions
Sooner Or Later
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Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Blair
Britain
People
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Foolish
Stupid
Way
Would Be
Representative
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Streets
Riots
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Jobs
Goal
Song
Popular
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Chips
Institutions
People
Heads
Rewrite
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Active
Democrat
My Future
Party
Liberal
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Done
Expectations
Justice
Establish
Expectation
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Home
War
Return
Human Right
Return Home
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Bosnia
Reconciliation
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Sin
Allow
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Bosnians
British
Nasty
Bosnian
British Press
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Civil Society
Institutions
Civil
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There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
People
Prejudice
Titles
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Destiny
Mass Destruction
Mean
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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 / British Politician
Age
Important
Modern
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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 / British Politician
Vision
Faraway
Happening
Imperative
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Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Bosnia
Ready
Thinking
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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.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Livelihood
Produce
Property
Trying
Sell
Prices
Proper
Viable
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The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Powerful
United States
Years
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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Destiny
Israel
Middle East
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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?
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Appeasement
Comeback
Generous
Return
Way
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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 / British Politician
Agreement
Ambassadors
Boards
Nine
Steering
Accountable
Ambassador
Board
Broad
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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 / British Politician
Mark
Politicians
Love Country People
Nicer
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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.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Affinity
Criticism
Hurtful
Let Down
Paid
People
Sufficient
Liberal
Whom
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At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.
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Next
Political
Weight
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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 / British Politician
Anger
Bosnia
Deeper
Guilt
House
Nightmare
Obsessed
Years
Skin
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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.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Democratic
Superb
Dayton
Democratic State
Foundations
Lay
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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.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Jobs
Bosnia
Closing
Doors
Europe
European Union
Little Time
Door
Enter
European
Union
Shut
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History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
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Jobs
Home
Ambition
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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.
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Country
Inspiration
Motivation
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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 / British Politician
Committed
Grief
Magnitude
Mentality
Reconcile
Tragedy
Both Ways
Crimes
Experienced
Followed
Fools
Likewise
Victims
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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
Paddy Ashdown / British Politician
Airports
Brother
Fire
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