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Politics is compromise.

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

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

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

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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

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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.

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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.

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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: February 27th, 1941

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