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Paddy Ashdown

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

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

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