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Paddy Ashdown Biography

Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, CH, KBE, PC (born 27 February 1941), known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999.

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

Home, Human, Return, War

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Blair, Britain, People, Regarded, Smarmy

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

Barriers, Collective, Destiny, Israel, Middle East, Sides

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

Countries, Country, Inspiration, Motivation, Multinational, Rule

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.

Create, Doors, Europe, Job, Jobs, Use

Politics is compromise.

Compromise, Politics

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Age, Connected, Everything, Important, Modern

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

Alternatives, Election, Obsessed, Political, Substance

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.

Anger, Deeper, House, Leave, Nightmare, Years

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

Bosnians, British, Nasty, Press, Said, Things

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Corrupt, Know, People, Politician, Politicians, Want

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Grace, Politician, Politics, State

Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.

Certain, Coalition, Coalitions, Come, Sooner Or Later

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.

Ambition, Home, Jobs, Lose, Priority, Security

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.

Agreement, Ambassadors, Boards, Meet, Pic, Week

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

Parliament, People, Place, Prejudice, Titles

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?

1930S, Appeasement, Comeback, Return, Way

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

Chips, Heads, Institutions, People

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 down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

Airports, Brother, Collapses, Fire, Flu, Swine

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Done, Establish, Expectation, Expectations, Justice

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