Quotes By Michael Ignatieff
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 a state of their own.
Michael Ignatieff
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
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
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
Michael Ignatieff
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
Michael Ignatieff
There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.
Michael Ignatieff