British - Politician | February 27, 1941 -
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.
Paddy Ashdown
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Politics is compromise.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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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.
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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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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.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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