Conrad Black Quotes

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

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 group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

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

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

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 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.

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 by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

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 of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

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

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

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.

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

I don't have any shame.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

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

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 would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

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

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.

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

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

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.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

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

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

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

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

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 outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

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, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

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 .

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 is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

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

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 against the volume of such emissions.

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

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 lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.