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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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"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."

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Donna Grant

"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce."

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Donna Grant

"Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now."

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Donna Grant

"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."

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Donna Grant

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."

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Donna Grant

"So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out."

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Donna Grant

"One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen."

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Donna Grant

"Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level."

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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."

War

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

Society

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

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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."

Power

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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?"

Politics

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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."

Agriculture

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Paddy Ashdown
"Politics is compromise."

Politics

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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 anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."

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

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

Politics

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