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Michael Ignatieff

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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.


— Michael Ignatieff


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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.


— Michael Ignatieff


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We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.


— Michael Ignatieff


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


— Michael Ignatieff


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Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.


— Michael Ignatieff


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There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.


— Michael Ignatieff


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All war aims for impunity.


— Michael Ignatieff


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Did you know about Michael Ignatieff?

In 2005 he was criticized by his peers on the editorial board for the Index on Censorship where human rights advocate Conor Gearty said Ignatieff fell into a category of "hand-wringing apologetic apologists for human-rights abuses". In a speech to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce in February 2009 he said; "You can't win elections if you're adding to the input costs of a farmer putting diesel into his tractor or you're adding to the input costs of a fiMichael Ignatieffrman putting diesel into his fishing boat or a trucker transporting goods". This would become a frequent topic in his lectures.

That same year he ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party ultimately losing to Stéphane Dion. : /ɪɡˈnæti. On May 3 2011 Ignatieff announced that he would resign as leader of the Liberal Party pending the selection of an interim leader which became effective May 25 2011.

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