Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Grant Ignatieff, PCis a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Toronto...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 May 1947
CountryCanada
multicultural-society land differences
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
patriotism patriotism-and-nationalism nationalism
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
imagine harvard let-me
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
people toronto saying-hello
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
want lingerie fans
Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
moral consideration individual
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
want world states
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.
ideas forget improvisation
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
cutting pieces want
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.
answers doe access
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.
reading journey earth
Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.
successful secret resources
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
goal democracy speech
It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.
exercise goal political
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...