Quotes from Paddy Ashdown

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

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.

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

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.