Underachieving Quotes by Conrad Black

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry,…

— Conrad Black

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

— Conrad Black

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over…

— Conrad Black

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

— Conrad Black

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

— Conrad Black

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

— Conrad Black

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid,…

— Conrad Black

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and…

— Conrad Black

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public…

— Conrad Black

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

— Conrad Black

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain…

— Conrad Black

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

— Conrad Black