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Paddy Ashdown
British
Politician
Born:
Feb 27
,
1941
Job
People
Politics
Try
War
You
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown
People
Politicians
Corrupt
Know
Want
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
Failure
Society
Civil
Civil Society
Institutions
Although
Greatest
Created
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics
Yourself
Grace
State
About
Putting
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
People
Heads
Institutions
Rewrite
Chips
Create
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
Truth
Think
Reconciliation
Bosnia
Ready
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown
Would
Would-Be
Riots
Were
Streets
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
Me
British Press
Press
About
Bosnian
Had
Said
Than
Much
Things
British
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics
Future
Will
Party
Active
Liberal
Democrat
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.
Paddy Ashdown
Every
Meet
Nine
Broad
Week
Steering
Am
Ambassador
Accountable
Board
Agreement
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?
Paddy Ashdown
Politics
Way
Say
Possible
Putting
Generous
Return
Ready
How
Were
Less
Appeasement
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.
Paddy Ashdown
Time
Try
Job
Power
Before
State
Enter
Has-Been
Bosnia
Could
Through
Institutions
Been
Very
Get
Modern
Closing
Door
Wanted
Little
Create
Use
Little Time
Union
European
European Union
Shut
Second
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