Paddy Ashdown

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

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

Politics is compromise.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.