Paddy Ashdown People Quotations

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.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

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.

It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.