Author: Paddy Ashdown

Quotes

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

- Paddy Ashdown

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

- Paddy Ashdown

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

- Paddy Ashdown

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?

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

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

- Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

- Paddy Ashdown

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.

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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

- Paddy Ashdown

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