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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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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
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"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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"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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"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 can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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"Politics is compromise."
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"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
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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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"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."
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