Michael Ignatieff Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

There’s a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.