Jeremy John Dunham 'Paddy' Quotes


I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.


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Paddy Ashdown, Leader, British Social & Liberal Democratic Party, Speech, Party Conference, Brighton, 1989

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