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Paddy Ashdown

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

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

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