Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole.
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.
It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,