62 Quotes by Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.

The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it,

Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.

I shall go home now. You have to know when your time is up. I knew that with the Liberal Democrats, and I know that now, in Bosnia.

Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty is more important than this country having a future in NATO and peace for its citizens.

This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.

It might be done I suppose before I leave but I think that a little unlikely.