A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
From Michael Ignatieff
Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.
I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
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.
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
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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