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" The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty. "
Michael Ignatieff
Liberal
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" Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. "
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" The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias. "
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" Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. "
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" There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. "
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" America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order. "
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" I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. "
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" We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it. "
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" A society is not a market. It is a political community. "
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" I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two. "
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" Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. "
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" 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. "
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" For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble. "
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" The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror. "
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" For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever. "
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Political
People
" Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application. "
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" 'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time. "
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Books
Book
Evil
" The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control. "
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War
Lawyers
Future
" 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. "
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War
Day
Happened
" Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries. "
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Down
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Bank
" I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it. "
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" Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms. "
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" All war aims for impunity. "
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" How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? "
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" 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. "
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Night
" Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting. "
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" Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. "
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" Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit. "
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" Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. "
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" It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves. "
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