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
said bosnians british
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
anger years skins
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.
people institutions chips
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
people titles prejudice
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
mean destiny mass-destruction
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
institutions civil-society
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
age important modern
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.
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.
war home return
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.