"We wanted this war and now we've got……" — 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

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find… — David Attenborough
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful… — Saint Augustine
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries… — Jane Austen
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. — Richard Bach
I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social… — Amitabh Bachchan

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