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Paddy Ashdown Quotes

British - Politician | February 27, 1941 -

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

Truth Think Ready Reconciliation

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Me Said Things British Press Than

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

Way High Foolish Would Who Worked

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

People Know Want Politicians Corrupt

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

Failure Society Greatest Institutions

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

Home War New Human Right Return

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

I Am Week Meet Agreement Accountable

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?

Politics Ready Say Way Possible How

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.

Future Vision War Place Moral More

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

War End Bad Now Build Try

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Change Grief Me Tragedy Fools Come

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

Power Time Job Door Create Closing

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