Paddy Ashdown

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

“We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.”

“It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.”

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