Author: Paddy Ashdown

Quotes

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

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

- Paddy Ashdown

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

- Paddy Ashdown

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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

- 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

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

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

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