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

[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.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.