Michael Ignatieff
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"Michael Grant Ignatieff", is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)/Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as an historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of University of Cambridge/Cambridge, University of Oxford/Oxford, Harvard University/Harvard and University of Toronto/Toronto.

While living in the United Kingdom from 1978 to 2000, Ignatieff became well known as a television and radio broadcaster and as an editorial columnist for The Observer. His documentary series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on British Broadcasting Corporation/BBC in 1993, and won a Canadian Gemini Award. His book of the same name, based on the series, won the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues and the University of Toronto's Lionel Gelber Prize. His memoir, The Russian Album, won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and the British Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize in 1988. His novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures, entitled The Rights Revolution, which was released in print later that year.

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I don't think you'll have to wait long. I'm not in a Hamlet-like state of indecision.

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You can't spend your whole life teaching people about public service without finally thinking that you should put your money where your mouth is.

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I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s. There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

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I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.

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I'd be wary of writing this country off. There are some scary and ugly things about it, but it remains a turbulently, explosively innovative place.

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Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.

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I spent five years in the United States. I admire and respect American institutions.

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None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Harper's vision of Canada.

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