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

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• Paddy Ashdown:

  People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

• Paddy Ashdown:

  Politics is compromise.

• Paddy Ashdown:

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

• Paddy Ashdown:

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

• Paddy Ashdown:

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

• Paddy Ashdown:

  I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from t

• Paddy Ashdown:

  I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are a

• Paddy Ashdown:

  The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say:

• Paddy Ashdown:

  We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and mak

• Paddy Ashdown:

  We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was