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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.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
— Michael Ignatieff
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
— Michael Ignatieff
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
— Michael Ignatieff
It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
— Michael Ignatieff
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
— Michael Ignatieff
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
— Michael Ignatieff
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
— Michael Ignatieff
All war aims for impunity.
— Michael Ignatieff
Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
— Michael Ignatieff
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
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
Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
— Michael Ignatieff
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
— Michael Ignatieff
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The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
— 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
Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
A society is not a market. It is a political community.
— Michael Ignatieff
I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
— Michael Ignatieff
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
— Michael Ignatieff
It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.
— Michael Ignatieff
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
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
There are no techniques in politics.
— Michael Ignatieff
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
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
— Michael Ignatieff
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
— Michael Ignatieff
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
— Michael Ignatieff
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
— Michael Ignatieff
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
— Michael Ignatieff
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
— Michael Ignatieff
Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
— Michael Ignatieff
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
— Michael Ignatieff
