Conrad Black Quotes

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• I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I…
• The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no…
• Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively…
• All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
• Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
• I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
• I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
• Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
• Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's…
• For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of…
• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,…
• The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot…
• The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly…
• We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest…
• While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority…
• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession…
• A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken…
• The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded…
• I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
• Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

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