Paddy Ashdown Quotes: I don’t think Bosnia is ready for…

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

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

We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.
Paddy Ashdown

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

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.
Paddy Ashdown

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

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.
Paddy Ashdown

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