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Letter "M" » Michael Ignatieff Quotes
«a theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s. There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«I'd be wary of writing this country off. There are some scary and ugly things about it, but it remains a turbulently, explosively innovative place.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s, ... There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«You can't spend your whole life teaching people about public service without finally thinking that you should put your money where your mouth is.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«I don't think you'll have to wait long. I'm not in a Hamlet-like state of indecision.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«I spent five years in the United States. I admire and respect American institutions.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
«None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Harper's vision of Canada.»
Author: Michael Ignatieff
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