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Paddy Ashdown

British

February 27, 1941

Politician

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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

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

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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