All Quotes by Paddy Ashdown
“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”
“History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”
“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.”
“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.”