All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
Conrad BlackI may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
Conrad BlackWe 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.
Conrad Black