I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.
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 IgnatieffAn intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
Michael Ignatieff