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
love nicer people though
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.
best bosnian job people
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.
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It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,
people criticism hurtful
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.
people britain blair
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
people want politician
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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.
home knew liberal shall time
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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Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.
appalling architects crimes failure free primary ten
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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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.
allow terrible war
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.