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Paddy Ashdown

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

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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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"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."

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"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

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"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

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"Politics is compromise."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
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"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that."
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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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