Paddy Ashdown Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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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.

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.

Paddy Ashdown

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

Paddy Ashdown

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

Paddy Ashdown

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

Paddy Ashdown

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

Paddy Ashdown

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.

Paddy Ashdown

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

Paddy Ashdown

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 is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Paddy Ashdown

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

Paddy Ashdown

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

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.

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

Paddy Ashdown

Politics is compromise.

Paddy Ashdown

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

Paddy Ashdown

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Paddy Ashdown

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Paddy Ashdown

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

Paddy Ashdown

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.

Paddy Ashdown

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

Paddy Ashdown

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.

Paddy Ashdown