Frases de Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff
Fecha de nacimiento: 12. Mayo 1947
Michael Grant Ignatieff , CPRC es un escritor, académico y expolítico canadiense. Fue el líder del Partido Liberal de Canadá y de la Oposición Oficial desde 2008 hasta 2011. Conocido por su obra como historiador, Ignatieff ha ocupado puestos académicos en la Universidad de Cambridge, la Universidad de Oxford, la Universidad Harvard y la Universidad de Toronto.
Entre 1978 y 2000, cuando vivía en el Reino Unido, Ignatieff adquirió fama como presentador de radio y televisión y como columnista editorial para The Observer. Su serie documental Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism fue emitida en la BBC en 1993, y le valió un Premio Gemini canadiense. Su libro homónimo, basado en la serie, obtuvo el premio Gordon Montador en la categoría de "Mejor libro canadiense sobre problemáticas sociales" y el premio Lionel Gelber, otorgado por la Universidad de Toronto.[1] Sus memorias, The Russian Album, ganaron el Premio Literario del Gobernador General en Canadá y en premio Heinemann de la Royal Society of Literature en Gran Bretaña en 1988. Su novela Scar Tissue fue seleccionada para el Premio Booker en 1994. En el año 2000, llevó a cabo las Conferencias Massey, tituladas The Rights Revolution, que más adelante en ese mismo año serían publicadas.
En las elecciones federales de 2006, Ignatieff fue elegido para la Cámara de los Comunes como Miembro del Parlamento para Etobicoke—Lakeshore. Ese mismo año, se postuló para líder del Partido Liberal, pero fue vencido por Stéphane Dion. Se desempeñó como diputado del partido bajo las órdenes de Dion, y, luego de la renuncia de éste en las elecciones de 2008, Ignatieff fue líder interino desde noviembre hasta que finalmente fue electo líder en mayo de 2009.[2] En las elecciones federales de 2011, Ignatieff perdió su banca en la peor elección de la historia del Partido Liberal. Con sólo treinta y cuatro escaños, el partido obtuvo un distante tercer lugar detrás de los Conservadores y el Nuevo Partido Democrático, y por lo tanto perdió su posición como Oposición Oficial.[3] El 3 de mayo de 2011, Ignatieff anunció que renunciaría como líder del Partido Liberal, dejando pendiente la selección de un líder interino;[4][5] su renuncia se hizo efectiva el 25 de mayo de 2011.
Después de su derrota electoral, Ignatieff aceptó una posición como residente senior en el Massey College de la Universidad de Toronto, donde a 2011 enseña leyes y ciencia política.[6] Wikipedia
Frases Michael Ignatieff
„The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.“
"Nation Building Lite", New York Times Magazine (July 2002)
„Here's what we shouldn't do. We shouldn't import failed criminal justice policies from the United States. Mega prisons and mandatory minimums have failed in the United States, we've got to learn from the failure of the American criminal justice policy. Get tough on guns, invest in crime prevention and invest in victim services“
English Language Leaders' Debate, April 12, 2011, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20110413/main-election-110413/20110413?s_name=election2011
„It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.“
"Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?", New York Times Magazine, June 26, 2005
„As Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.“
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
„I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.“
Canada in the World Speech, University of Ottawa (30 March 2006)
„The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible political goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence…“
"The Lesser Evil" (Penquin, 2004) Pg. 144
„A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.“
New York Times magazine op-ed piece, May 2, 2004
„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?“
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
„There is only one thing we can do about this: live the way we are supposed to live, as our Constitution commands us to, with dignity and respect for all. Being an American is not easy. It is hard. We are required to keep some serious promises. We are judged by a high standard, one we crafted for ourselves in the founding documents of the republic, the ones that talk about the equality of all people, the ones that tell us that government is of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to live by this, at home and abroad, and it is just about the only thing we can do to face the hatred of those who want to destroy us. Our best defense is to stay true to who we are. Our best defense is to refuse to live in fear, of them, of ourselves, of anyone.“
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
„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.“
Canada in the World Speech, University of Ottawa (30 March 2006)
„I believe in Canadians. I believe in you. As I said at the beginning, we are a serious people.“
Canada in the World Speech, University of Ottawa (30 March 2006)
„Some voices are calling on America to circle the wagons. Some are even saying that our enemies do worse, so we should respond in kind. The problem here is that this is America. This is a constitutional republic based on the rule of law and equal respect for all persons. We can’t pretend that we can bend the rules any which way.“
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
„Coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition.“
In response to his position on the Coalition Accord signed between the Liberal Party, New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois parties, by his predecessor Stephane Dion.
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
„To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.“
New York Times magazine op-ed piece, May 2, 2004
„As a former denizen of Harvard, I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions. It is the street virtue par excellence. Bus drivers can display a shrewder grasp of what’s what than Nobel Prize winners. The only way any of us can improve our grasp of reality is to confront the world every day and learn, mostly from our mistakes, what works and what doesn’t. Yet even lengthy experience can fail us in life and in politics. Experience can imprison decision-makers in worn-out solutions while blinding them to the untried remedy that does the trick.“
Getting Iraq Wrong http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/magazine/05iraq-t.html?ei=5070&en=1c14886ef4740931&ex=1187409600&emc=eta1&pagewanted=print&_r=0, The New York Times, August 5, 2007.
„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.“
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
„The difference between us and terrorists is supposed to be that we play by these rules, even if they don't. No, I haven't forgotten Hiroshima and My Lai. The American way of war has often been brutal, but at least our warriors are supposed to fight with honor and can be punished if they don't. There is no warrior's honor among terrorists.“
New York Times magazine op-ed piece, May 2, 2004
