Michael Ignatieff Quotes

The [<nowiki/>Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition.

I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.

As Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Until George W. Bush, no American president -- not even Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson -- actually risked his presidency on the premise that Jefferson might be right. But this gambler from Texas has bet his place in history on the proposition, as he stated in a speech in March, that decades of American presidents' excusing and accommodating tyranny, in the pursuit of stability in the Middle East inflamed the hatred of the fanatics who piloted the planes into the twin towers on Sept. 11. If democracy plants itself in Iraq and spreads throughout the Middle East, Bush will be remembered as a plain-speaking visionary.

You shouldn’t go into politics just to prove yourself—skydiving would be an easier path.