"'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill." — Michael Ignatieff

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

There are no techniques in politics.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.