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We do need to ask ourselves, as a society, as a free people, how we came to this pass. Those soldiers were acting in the name of America, and they disgraced its name. We have to ask who authorized them to do so. Who should take responsibility here? We need answers to these questions, and we need to take responsibility as citizens that we get answers, and that accountability is established, right up the chain of command if need be, so that we do not go here again as a country.

Michael Ignatieff
I believe in Canadians. I believe in you. As I said at the beginning, we are a serious people.

Michael Ignatieff
Most of us no longer watch television; we graze, zapping back and forth between channels whenever our boredom threshold is triggered. No one does any one thing at a time. A new culture has taken shape which caters for people with the attention span of a flea.

Michael Ignatieff
We are living a moment of truth in Iraq, a moment in which we have to look fair and square at disagreeable realities, in which we have to look at ourselves. The pictures from Abu Ghraib prison are a kind of mirror in which we have to look at ourselves and ask: what kind of people did this? How did this become possible? Could I have done a thing like this to those people?

Michael Ignatieff
Ever since I entered Parliament in January, people have been asking me: Why have you gone into politics? As in: Are you nuts? No, I'm not nuts. This is my country, after all.

Michael Ignatieff