Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, CH, KBE, PC, usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 February 1941
mean destiny mass-destruction
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
institutions civil-society
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
age important modern
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
trip worst
It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,
came far future moral saw terrible war
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.
best bosnian job people
My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole.
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
both cannot change committed crimes followed fools magnitude mentality victims works
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
believe change government next perhaps system
I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament,