Michael Ignatieff Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
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.
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.
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
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 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.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.
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.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.