Michael Ignatieff Canadian Politician Quotations

If you say that we're going to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing but we're only going to do it at 15,000 feet, you can't actually do it.

We're going out to rescue people who are being slaughtered or massacred, but we're going to do it at zero personal cost to ourselves.

Nationalism could almost be defined as intense national feeling for a country that does not yet exist, or for someone else's country.

My chief concern about the way we're going is that new technology, precision weapons technology, appears to be giving us a new moral alibi.

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.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.