Conrad Black Quotes

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

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.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

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

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

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 matter how excessive.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.

The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

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.

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

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.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

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 standards we can .

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

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.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I don't have any shame.

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

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

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

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