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Top 25 Paddy Ashdown Quotes (2025 Update)

Paddy Ashdown Quote: “It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results.”

1. “It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “Politics is compromise.”

2. “Politics is compromise.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.”

5. “The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.”

8. “One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “I don’t think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”

10. “History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.”

12. “I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”

14. “Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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?”

16. “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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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.”

17. “Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.”

19. “The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.”

20. “My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.”

24. “People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s heads.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”

26. “What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “We have invented a new human right here – the right to return home after a war.”

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

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Paddy Ashdown Quote: “Coalition will come sooner or later, I’m certain of that.”

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

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