Michael Ignatieff Quotes

I respect the work Mr. Harper has done to learn French, to make a 'gesture' toward Quebec. My criticism of him is that he's making promises I don't think he can keep. - Michael Ignatieff

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s... There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march. - Michael Ignatieff

I don't think you'll have to wait long. I'm not in a Hamlet-like state of indecision. - Michael Ignatieff

I don't support the Americans any more and I, in many ways, would hope they would leave sooner rather than later. But I do support Iraqi democracy. - Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. - Michael Ignatieff

I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians. - Michael Ignatieff

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? - Michael Ignatieff

Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country. - Michael Ignatieff

All war aims for impunity. - Michael Ignatieff

A theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum. - Michael Ignatieff

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