The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.
Michael IgnatieffI 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 IgnatieffThere are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.
Michael IgnatieffWe can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.
Michael Ignatieff