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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Conrad Black

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

— 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…

— Conrad Black

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

— 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…

— Conrad Black

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

— Conrad Black

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

— Conrad Black

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

— Conrad Black

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of…

— Conrad Black

The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.

— Conrad Black

The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of…

— Conrad Black

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful…

— Conrad Black

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human…

— Conrad Black

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

— Conrad Black

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused…

— Conrad Black

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

— Conrad Black

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled…

— Conrad Black

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had…

— Conrad Black

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public…

— Conrad Black