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Paddy Ashdown

"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."

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"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."

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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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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
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"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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"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?"
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"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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"I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war."
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"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
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"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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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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