62 Quotes by Paddy Ashdown

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries – these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

We have invented a new human right here – the right to return home after a war.

I don’t think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

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.

I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s heads.

At the next election he’ll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Coalition will come sooner or later, I’m certain of that.