Best quotes by Michael Ignatieff on Political

Checkout quotes by Michael Ignatieff on Political

  • I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.
    - Michael Ignatieff
  • A society is not a market. It is a political community.
    - Michael Ignatieff
  • When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
    - Michael Ignatieff
  • Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.
    - Michael Ignatieff
  • What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.
    - Michael Ignatieff