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    Paddy Ashdown

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


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #i #job #popular #results

    Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace. ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #grace #politics #putting #state #yourself

    Politics is compromise. ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #politics

    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? ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #generous #how #less #politics #possible

    The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #civil #civil society #created #failure #greatest

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


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #here #home #human #human right #invented

    We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #get #leave #livelihoods #make #prices

    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. ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #far #faraway #future #happening #here

    What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. ↗


    — Paddy Ashdown

    #democrat #democrat party #future #liberal #party






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    Did you know about Paddy Ashdown?

    A gifted polyglot Ashdown is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and other languages. He is currently the Chair of the Liberal Democrats 2015 General Election Team. After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services Ashdown was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001 and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006 following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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