Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share
