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Michael Ignatieff quotes: In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean. In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
Michael Ignatieff quotes: There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: 'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill. 'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty. The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: All war aims for impunity. All war aims for impunity.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear. Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading. Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them. I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame. If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Loving a country is an act of the imagination. Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves. It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't. Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule. The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country. Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit. Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it. I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies. I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: A society is not a market. It is a political community. A society is not a market. It is a political community.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian. I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: What we want is to become masters in our own house. What we want is to become masters in our own house.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead. It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it. We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines. Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: There are no techniques in politics. There are no techniques in politics.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive. I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back. If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau. I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: To imagine Canada as a citizen requires that you enter into he mind of someone who does not believe what you believe or share what matters to you. To imagine Canada as a citizen requires that you enter into he mind of someone who does not believe what you believe or share what matters to you.
Michael Ignatieff quotes: A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news. A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

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