“Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.” WantCountryCommunityCommunicationUnityCommittedNational Unity Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.” WantHumansKindMayTwoRealNextGrowthTechnologyCenturyPossibilityCapableIntellectualCommitmentWake UpCrisisEnvironmentalPopulationCommunicateGapsFearfulWant UEmergingExpertiseCopingIngenuityScience And TechnologyMisplacedPopulation GrowthReadershipWake Up CallBlithe Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.” WantWellsClearFansAbsolutesLingerie Author:Michael Ignatieff
“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.” WantGivingMatterStrongCan DoIssuesStudentsAppropriateClassroomPartisansPartisan Politics Author:Michael Ignatieff
“There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go to the party convention, who can't take part in politics, because they're holding down a job to pay their tuition. These are kids who want to do public service, who want to get involved politically, but their financial situation is precarious.” WantKidsJobsYoungPartyPaySituationCollegeInvolvedUniversityFinancialActiveConventionsGet InvolvedPublic ServicePrecariousTuition Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact that we don't want to have a country where you think, "my kids have got to move to the city if they're going to have any kind of future." We've been saying that, and we've not got through.” IfsThinkingWantGivingKindCountryFactsKidsMovingUsedLeftCitiesBehindsSpeechCanadaLeft Behind Author:Michael Ignatieff
“The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't care about you and want to leave you dead by the roadside." We've simply got to go out and say, "they're lying to you about us. We actually care about you more than the other guys, and we're not going to pander to your prejudices - we're going to give hope to your kids."” WantGivingCareKidsLyingGuyPrejudiceDon't CareBunchCanadaUrbanOther GuysSnobMetropolitanRoadside Author:Michael Ignatieff
“The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.” WantLittlesStatesReasonPiecesCuttingCroats Author:Michael Ignatieff
“There 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.” WorldWantStatesNations Author:Michael Ignatieff
