"A good journalist is modest; his only job……" — Michael Ignatieff

"A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news."

— Michael Ignatieff

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67 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A…
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces…
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the…
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for…
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive…
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life,…
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. — Henry Adams
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. — William Bernbach
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
All that counts in life is intention. — Andrea Bocelli
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that… — Alain de Botton
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.' — Adam Carolla
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot. — Hillary Clinton
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort. — Bud Wilkinson

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