"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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Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

Paddy Ashdown

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“We're looking at a much worse [Hurricane] risk than people were thinking about a year ago ...some places are going to become uninsurable.”
“To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.”
“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.”
“Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.”

Source : "'Hot Guy of the Week': American Idol's Blake Lewis". US Weekly, May 21, 2007.
“It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.”
“We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.”
“Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.”
“Seeing creates growth.”

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