Conrad Black famous quotes

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

#Punishment #Rehabilitation #Prison

An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.
-- Conrad Black

#People #Policy #Underachieving

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
-- Conrad Black

#Wealth #Chiefs

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

#Mercy

I don't have any shame.
-- Conrad Black

#Shame

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

#Proud #Prison #Surviving

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

#Citizens #Passports

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Issues #Perception #Credibility

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

#America #World #Term

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

#Psychology #Doe #Three

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

#Christian #Atrocities #World

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

#Successful #Media

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
-- Conrad Black

#Facts

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

#Hypocrite #Sitting #Biden

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

#Greed #Opinion #Underestimated

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
-- Conrad Black

#Fads #Zealot

The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
-- Conrad Black

[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals...
-- Conrad Black

#Mass #Jackals

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

#Biblical #Wealthy

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Believe #Government #Essence

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

#Soul #Republic #Eating

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

#Loyalty #Personality #Company

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Philosophy #Long #Cartoon

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.
-- Conrad Black

#Survival #Terrorist

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.
-- Conrad Black

#War #Destiny #Leader

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Country #Successful #Term

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

#Israel #Media #Outlets

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

#Mistake #Promise #Trying

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

#Good Luck #Yesterday #Lucky

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

#Israel #Self #Issues

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.
-- Conrad Black

#War #Party #Cutting

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Hands #Bars #Benches

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Country #Israel #Numbers

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Hypocrite #Government #People

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Doe #Natural #Volume

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Determination #Government #People

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

#Real #War #Assault

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

#War #Trying

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Envy #Soul #Mind

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.
-- Conrad Black

#War #Taken #Wickedness

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Commitment #Numbers #Views

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Powerful #Exercise #Men

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 .
-- Conrad Black

#Ambition #People #Trying

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.
-- Conrad Black

#Anti Bullying #Mind #Opinion