Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, CH, KBE, PC, usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 February 1941
allowing believe bunch corrupt country future liberty nato peace small stay
A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty is more important than this country having a future in NATO and peace for its citizens.
leave might suppose
It might be done I suppose before I leave but I think that a little unlikely.
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This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
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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.
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Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.
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I don't think there is anyone who knows Bosnia-Herzegovina better than him. He is deeply trusted in the country. The international mission is in save hands.
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I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
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I am absolutely delighted that the international community has chosen Schwarz-Schilling to be my successor. He knows this country, he loves this country... and I cannot think of nobody better to take on this job.
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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.
compromise
Politics is compromise.
song jobs goal
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
trying produce sells
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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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.
party my-future democrat
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.