Conrad Black Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.”
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“An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.”
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“Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.”
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“I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.”
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“I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.”
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“I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.”
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“I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.”
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“For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.”
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“Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.”
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“Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.”
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“Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.”
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“The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.”
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“It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.”
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“Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.”
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“Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots”
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“The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.”
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“[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals...”
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“Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.”
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“There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.”
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“The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.”
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“Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.”
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“I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.”
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“Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.”
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“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 much of the world met to change the world.”
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“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 history.”
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“Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.”
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“I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.”
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“I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.”
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“Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.”
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