I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
Michael Ignatieff

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

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

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
Michael Ignatieff

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

All war aims for impunity.
Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Michael Ignatieff

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