Michael Ignatieff Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Loving a country is an act of the imagination.”

“Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.”

“Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.”

“The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.”

“There are no techniques in politics.”

“I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.”

“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.”

“All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.”

“America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.”

“Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.”