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Paddy Ashdown

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."

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"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."

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Donna Grant

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

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"Positive life, positive action."

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Donna Grant

"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."

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Donna Grant

"One of the man's major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God hasdominion over the universe."

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Donna Grant

"You can break through every barrier with persistent effort."

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Donna Grant

"You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage."

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Donna Grant

"But you - women like you are dangerous- ominous " take care, Love " men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity..."

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Donna Grant

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

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Paddy Ashdown
"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."

War

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Paddy Ashdown
"Politics is compromise."

Politics

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Paddy Ashdown
"I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war."

War

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Paddy Ashdown
"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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Paddy Ashdown
"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."

Politics

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

People

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

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

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