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.
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy. - Paddy Ashdown
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
- Paddy Ashdown
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' br… - Paddy Ashdown
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' br…
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. - Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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 ang… - Paddy Ashdown
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 ang…
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes… - Paddy Ashdown
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes…
Politics is compromise. - Paddy Ashdown
Politics is compromise.
Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready f… - Paddy Ashdown
Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready f…
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. - Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git. - Paddy Ashdown
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
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