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.
Michael IgnatieffThere 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.
Michael IgnatieffCynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
Michael IgnatieffTo defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
Michael Ignatieff