Michael Ignatieff Quotes

What I do for a living is ask questions.

Great questions make great reporting.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

My father was a journalist.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

If you guys would stop asking questions about the Iraq War, there would be no problem at all.

Once the Secretary of State invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you’re sunk.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Every organization has men and women who will be sure that the news gets out when it is good news. The problem is with the bad news. That is the challenge of democracy

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

I loved being governor. It’s like running your own little country.

ßome would not be governed by white men, and some would not be governed by black men, and some would not be governed by mulattoes; but the truth was they did not want to be governed by anybody

Politics is power, and communications is power,

I'm just a reporter.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.